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 · 101–119 of 119 · BSB
No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
to console the mourners in Zion— to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep still, until her righteousness shines like a bright light, her salvation like a blazing torch.
Nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will bestow.
You welcome those who gladly do right, who remember Your ways. Surely You were angry, for we sinned. How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?
O LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously, who examines the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.
“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.
This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “When I restore them from captivity, they will once again speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities: ‘May the LORD bless you, O righteous dwelling place, O holy mountain.’
In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely, and this is the name by which it will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.
All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’
Now if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die in his sin, and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. And I will hold you responsible for his blood.
You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.
You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.
You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.
Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion.
Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth who carry out His justice. Seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.
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