Righteous
צַדִּיקStrong’s H6662tsaddiq (tsad-diq)
Appears in 197 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsaddiq is the Hebrew word usually translated “righteous” and “o righteous”. It appears in 197 verses of the Old Testament.
“Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.”
Meaning
- Just, lawful, righteousjust, righteous (in government) · just, right (in one's cause) · just, righteous (in conduct and character) · righteous (as justified and vindicated by God) · right, correct, lawful
How it's translated
- righteous 124
- a righteous 33
- the righteous 13
- to the righteous 8
- and righteous 8
- and a righteous 6
- o righteous 3
- for the righteous 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 66
- Psalms 50
- Ezekiel 14
- Isaiah 12
- Genesis 8
- Job 7
25 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 9:9In contextRejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
- Genesis 6:9These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
- Genesis 7:1And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
- Genesis 18:23And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
- Genesis 18:24Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
- Genesis 18:25That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
All 197 verses, by book
- 1 Samuel 1
- 24:17
- 2 Kings 1
- 10:9
- Ezra 1
- 9:15
- Psalms 50
- 1:51:65:127:97:1111:311:511:714:531:1832:1133:134:1534:1934:2137:1237:1637:1737:2137:2537:2937:3037:3237:3952:655:2258:1058:1164:1068:369:2872:775:1092:1294:2197:1197:12112:4112:6116:5118:15118:20119:137125:3129:4140:13141:5142:7145:17146:8
- Proverbs 66
- 2:203:334:189:910:310:610:710:1110:1610:2010:2110:2410:2510:2810:3010:3110:3211:811:911:1011:2111:2311:2811:3011:3112:312:512:712:1012:1212:1312:2112:2613:513:913:2113:2213:2514:1914:3215:615:2815:2917:1517:2618:518:1018:1720:721:1221:1521:1821:2623:2424:1524:1624:2425:2628:128:1228:2829:229:629:729:1629:27
- Daniel 1
- 9:14
- Hosea 1
- 14:9
- Zephaniah 1
- 3:5
- Zechariah 1
- 9:9
- Malachi 1
- 3:18
Hebrew dictionary
צַדִּיק tsaddiq · righteous
1) just, lawful, righteous 1a) just, righteous (in government) 1b) just, right (in one's cause) 1c) just, righteous (in conduct and character) 1d) righteous (as justified and vindicated by God) 1e) right, correct, lawful
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “righteous” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RIGHTEOUS, adjective
ri'chus.
- Just; accordant to the divine law.
- Just; equitable; merited.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.