Righteousness
צִדְקָהStrong’s H6665tsidqah (tsid-qah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tsidqah is the Aramaic word usually translated “right doing”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.”
Meaning
- Right doing, doing right, righteousness
How it's translated
- by right doing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
צִדְקָה tsidqah · righteousness
right doing, doing right, righteousness Aramaic of tse.da.qah (צְדָקָה "righteousness" H6666)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.