Word study · Hebrew
צֶ֫דֶק
tse.deqH6664righteousness
Used 119 times in the tagged text.
H6664G · צֶ֫דֶק · righteousness
What it means
- justice, rightness, righteousness
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- 1) justice, rightness, righteousness
- 1a) what is right or just or normal, rightness, justness (of weights and measures)
- 1b) righteousness (in government)
- 1b1) of judges, rulers, kings
- 1b2) of law
- 1b3) of Davidic king, Messiah
- 1b4) of Jerusalem as seat of just government
- 1b5) of God's attribute
- 1c) righteousness, justice (in case or cause)
- 1d) rightness (in speech)
- 1e) righteousness (as ethically right)
- 1f) righteousness (as vindicated), justification (in controversy), deliverance, victory, prosperity
- 1f1) of God as covenant-keeping in redemption
- 1f2) in name of Messianic king
- 1f3) of people enjoying salvation
- 1f4) of Cyrus
H6664H · צֶ֫דֶק · Righteousness
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- This name means justice, righteousness
- Another name of ye.ho.vah (יהוה "LORD" H3068G)
Same idea, other words · Righteousness and justice
The same word family carries both 'righteous' and 'just'. English splits them; the Bible often does not.
- צֶ֫דֶקtsedeq righteousnessrighteousness, what is rightH6664
- צְדָקָהtsedaqah righteousnessrighteousness as a lived quality or a giftH6666
- מִשְׁפָּטmishpat justice: judgementjustice, judgment, the right orderH4941
- δικαιοσύνηdikaiosunē righteousnessrighteousness, the standing and the conductG1343
- δίκαιοςdikaios justrighteous, justG1342
- δικαιόωdikaioō to justifyto declare righteous, to justifyG1344
Where it appears
- Leviticus5
- Deuteronomy7
- Job7
- Psalms49
- Proverbs9
- Ecclesiastes3
- Isaiah25
- Jeremiah6
- Ezekiel4
- Daniel1
- Hosea2
- Zephaniah1
Every use · 1–50 of 119 · BSB
You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
At that time I charged your judges: “Hear the disputes between your brothers, and judge fairly between a man and his brother or a foreign resident.
You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
They will call the peoples to a mountain; there they will offer sacrifices of righteousness. For they will feast on the abundance of the seas and the hidden treasures of the sand.”
Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.
Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban.
let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.
“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
I get my knowledge from afar, and I will ascribe justice to my Maker.
For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved my distress; show me grace and hear my prayer.
Offer the sacrifices of the righteous and trust in the LORD.
The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and integrity.
I will thank the LORD for His righteousness and sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.
For You have upheld my just cause; You sit on Your throne judging righteously.
He judges the world with justice; He governs the people with equity.
He who walks with integrity and practices righteousness, who speaks the truth from his heart,
A prayer of David. Hear, O LORD, my righteous plea; listen to my cry. Give ear to my prayer— it comes from lips free of deceit.
As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I will be satisfied in Your presence.
The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.
So the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in His sight.
He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for the sake of His name.
Vindicate me by Your righteousness, O LORD my God, and do not let them gloat over me.
May those who favor my vindication shout for joy and gladness; may they always say, “Exalted be the LORD who delights in His servant’s well-being.”
Then my tongue will proclaim Your righteousness and Your praises all day long.
He will bring forth your righteousness like the dawn, your justice like the noonday sun.
I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; behold, I do not seal my lips, as You, O LORD, do know.
In your splendor ride forth in victory on behalf of truth and humility and justice; may your right hand show your awesome deeds.
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.
Your name, O God, like Your praise, reaches to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness.
And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah
Then You will delight in righteous sacrifices, in whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on Your altar.
You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah
For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David. Do you indeed speak justly, O rulers? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?
With awesome deeds of righteousness You answer us, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas.
May he judge Your people with righteousness and Your afflicted with justice.
Loving devotion and faithfulness have joined together; righteousness and peace have kissed.
Faithfulness sprouts from the earth, and righteousness looks down from heaven.
Righteousness will go before Him to prepare the way for His steps.
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; loving devotion and faithfulness go before You.
Surely judgment will again be righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.
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