Righteousness
צִדְקָהStrong’s H6666tsidqah (tsid-qah)
Appears in 150 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsidqah is the Hebrew word usually translated “righteousness”, “righteousness your” and “righteousness of”. It appears in 150 verses of the Old Testament.
“O LORD, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.”
Meaning
- Right doing, doing right, righteousness
How it's translated
- righteousness 38
- and righteousness 30
- righteousness your 10
- in righteousness your 9
- righteousness of 9
- righteousness his 9
- and righteousness your 6
- in righteousness 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 34
- Isaiah 34
- Ezekiel 18
- Proverbs 17
- Jeremiah 7
- Deuteronomy 6
22 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 9:16In contextO LORD, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
- Daniel 9:18In contextO my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
- Zechariah 8:8In contextAnd I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.
- Genesis 15:6And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
- Genesis 18:19For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
- Genesis 30:33So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
All 150 verses, by book
- Judges 1
- 5:11
- 1 Chronicles 1
- 18:14
- Nehemiah 1
- 2:20
- Psalms 34
- 5:811:722:3124:531:133:536:636:1040:1051:1469:2771:271:1571:1671:1971:2472:172:388:1289:1698:299:4103:6103:17106:3106:31111:3112:3112:9119:40119:142143:1143:11145:7
- Isaiah 34
- 1:275:75:165:239:710:2228:1732:1632:1733:533:1545:845:2345:2446:1246:1348:148:1851:651:854:1454:1756:157:1258:259:959:1459:1659:1760:1761:1061:1163:164:6
- Hosea 1
- 10:12
- Joel 1
- 2:23
- Zechariah 1
- 8:8
Hebrew 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.