Righteousness
צֶ֫דֶקStrong’s H6664tsedeq (tse-deq)
Appears in 112 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsedeq is the Hebrew word usually translated “righteousness”, “righteousness your” and “righteousness my”. It appears in 112 verses of the Old Testament.
“Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.”
Meaning
- Justice, rightness, righteousnesswhat is right or just or normal, rightness, justness (of weights and measures) · righteousness (in government) · righteousness, justice (in case or cause) · rightness (in speech) · righteousness (as ethically right) · righteousness (as vindicated), justification (in controversy), deliverance, victory, prosperity
How it's translated
- righteousness 69
- righteousness your 10
- in righteousness 9
- righteousness my 6
- and righteousness 5
- with righteousness 4
- according to righteousness my 3
- righteousness his 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 49
- Isaiah 25
- Proverbs 9
- Job 7
- Jeremiah 6
- Deuteronomy 5
12 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 19:15Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
- Leviticus 19:36Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 1:16And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
- Deuteronomy 16:18Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
- Deuteronomy 16:20That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
- Deuteronomy 25:15But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
All 112 verses, by book
- Psalms 49
- 4:14:57:87:179:49:815:217:117:1518:2018:2423:335:2435:2735:2837:640:945:445:748:1050:651:1952:358:165:572:285:1085:1185:1389:1494:1596:1397:297:698:9118:19119:7119:62119:75119:106119:121119:123119:138119:142119:144119:160119:164119:172132:9
- Isaiah 25
- 1:211:2611:411:516:526:926:1032:141:241:1042:642:2145:845:1345:1951:151:551:758:258:859:461:362:162:264:5
- Daniel 1
- 9:24
- Zephaniah 1
- 2:3
Hebrew dictionary
צֶ֫דֶק tsedeq · righteousness
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 …
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “righteousness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RIGHTEOUSNESS, noun
ri'chusness.
- Purity of heart and rectitude of life; conformity of heart and life to the divine law. righteousness as used in Scripture and theology, in which it is chiefly used, is nearly equivalent to holiness, comprehending holy principles and affections of heart, and conformity of life to the divine law.
- Applied to God, the perfection or holiness of his nature; exact rectitude; faithfulness.
- The active and passive obedience of Christ, by which the law of God is fulfilled. Daniel 9:7
- Justice; equity between man and man. Luke 1:75
All definitions
- The cause of our justification.“The Lord our righteousness” Jeremiah 23:6
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.