צֶ֫דֶק
righteousness
also: justice, rightness fuller range ↓
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 86 times (72%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 33 times (28%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 119 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6664 appears — 112 distinct verses across 12 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Leviticus 2 verses
- Leviticus 19:15 בְּ/צֶ֖דֶק prep + n c ms "'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
- Leviticus 19:36 צֶ֣דֶק צֶ֗דֶק צֶ֛דֶק צֶ֖דֶק n c ms n c ms n c ms n c ms Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall you have. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 5 verses
- Deuteronomy 1:16 צֶ֔דֶק n c ms I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear [the causes] between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.
- Deuteronomy 16:18 צֶֽדֶק n c ms Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
- Deuteronomy 16:20 צֶ֥דֶק צֶ֖דֶק n c ms n c ms That which is altogether just shall you follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
- Deuteronomy 25:15 וָ/צֶ֨דֶק֙ וָ/צֶ֖דֶק conj + n c ms conj + n c ms A perfect and just weight shall you have; a perfect and just measure shall you have: that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
- Deuteronomy 33:19 צֶ֑דֶק n c ms They shall call the peoples to the mountain; There shall they offer sacrifices of righteousness: For they shall suck the abundance of the seas, The hidden treasures of the sand.
Job 7 verses
- Job 6:29 צִדְקִ/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Please return. Let there be no injustice; Yes, return again, my cause is righteous.
- Job 8:3 צֶֽדֶק n c ms Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
- Job 8:6 צִדְקֶֽ/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms If you were pure and upright, Surely now he would awaken for you, And make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
- Job 29:14 צֶ֣דֶק n c ms I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
- Job 31:6 צֶ֑דֶק n c ms (Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know my integrity);
- Job 35:2 צִדְקִ֥/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs "Do you think this to be your right, Or do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's,'
- Job 36:3 צֶֽדֶק n c ms I will get my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
Psalms 49 verses
- Psalms 4:1 צִדְקִ֗/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
- Psalms 4:5 צֶ֑דֶק n c ms Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in Yahweh.
- Psalms 7:8 כְּ/צִדְקִ֖/י prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, And to my integrity that is in me.
- Psalms 7:17 כְּ/צִדְק֑/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness, And will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.
- Psalms 9:4 צֶֽדֶק n c ms For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.
- Psalms 9:8 בְּ/צֶ֑דֶק prep + n c ms He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.
- Psalms 15:2 צֶ֑דֶק n c ms He who walks blamelessly does what is right, And speaks truth in his heart;
- Psalms 17:1 צֶ֗דֶק n c ms Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn't go out of deceitful lips.
- Psalms 17:15 בְּ֭/צֶדֶק prep + n c ms As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
- Psalms 18:20 כְּ/צִדְקִ֑/י prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
- Psalms 18:24 כְ/צִדְקִ֑/י prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
- Psalms 23:3 צֶ֝֗דֶק n c ms He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
- Psalms 35:24 כְ֭/צִדְקְ/ךָ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness; Don't let them gloat over me.
- Psalms 35:27 צִ֫דְקִ֥/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause. Yes, let them say continually, "Yahweh be magnified, Who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!"
- Psalms 35:28 צִדְקֶ֑/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your praise all day long.
- Psalms 37:6 צִדְקֶ֑/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms He will make your righteousness go forth as the light, And your justice as the noon day sun.
- Psalms 40:9 צֶ֨דֶק n c ms I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
- Psalms 45:4 צֶ֑דֶק n c ms In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome deeds.
- Psalms 45:7 צֶּדֶק֮ n c ms You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
- Psalms 48:10 צֶ֝֗דֶק n c ms As is your name, God, So is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.
- Psalms 50:6 צִדְק֑/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms The heavens shall declare his righteousness, For God himself is judge. Selah.
- Psalms 51:19 צֶ֭דֶק n c ms Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, In burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar.
- Psalms 52:3 צֶ֣דֶק n c ms You love evil more than good, Lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.
- Psalms 58:1 צֶ֭דֶק n c ms Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?
- Psalms 65:5 בְּ/צֶ֣דֶק prep + n c ms By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, Of those who are far away on the sea;
- Psalms 72:2 בְ/צֶ֑דֶק prep + n c ms He will judge your people with righteousness, And your poor with justice.
- Psalms 85:10 צֶ֖דֶק n c ms Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
- Psalms 85:11 וְ֝/צֶ֗דֶק conj + n c ms Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven.
- Psalms 85:13 צֶ֭דֶק n c ms Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.
- Psalms 89:14 צֶ֣דֶק n c ms Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
- Psalms 94:15 צֶ֭דֶק n c ms For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.
- Psalms 96:13 בְּ/צֶ֑דֶק prep + n c ms Before Yahweh; for he comes, For he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, The peoples with his truth.
- Psalms 97:2 צֶ֥דֶק n c ms Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
- Psalms 97:6 צִדְק֑/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms The heavens declare his righteousness. All the peoples have seen his glory.
- Psalms 98:9 בְּ/צֶ֑דֶק prep + n c ms Let them sing before Yahweh, For he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with equity.
- Psalms 118:19 צֶ֑דֶק n c ms Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to Yah.
- Psalms 119:7 צִדְקֶֽ/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, When I learn your righteous judgments.
- Psalms 119:62 צִדְקֶֽ/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, Because of your righteous ordinances.
- Psalms 119:75 צֶ֣דֶק n c ms Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, That in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
- Psalms 119:106 צִדְקֶֽ/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms I have sworn, and have confirmed it, That I will obey your righteous ordinances.
- Psalms 119:121 וָ/צֶ֑דֶק conj + n c ms I have done what is just and righteous. Don't leave me to my oppressors.
- Psalms 119:123 צִדְקֶֽ/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms My eyes fail looking for your salvation, For your righteous word.
- Psalms 119:138 צֶ֣דֶק n c ms cs You have commanded your statutes in righteousness. They are fully trustworthy.
- Psalms 119:142 צֶ֣דֶק n c ms Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.
- Psalms 119:144 צֶ֖דֶק n c ms cs Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.
- Psalms 119:160 צִדְקֶֽ/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.
- Psalms 119:164 צִדְקֶֽ/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Seven times a day, I praise you, Because of your righteous ordinances.
- Psalms 119:172 צֶּֽדֶק n c ms Let my tongue sing of your word, For all your commandments are righteousness.
- Psalms 132:9 צֶ֑דֶק n c ms Let your priest be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!"
Proverbs 9 verses
- Proverbs 1:3 צֶ֥דֶק n c ms To receive instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness, justice, and equity;
- Proverbs 2:9 צֶ֣דֶק n c ms Then you will understand righteousness and justice, Equity and every good path.
- Proverbs 8:8 בְּ/צֶ֥דֶק prep + n c ms All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
- Proverbs 8:15 צֶֽדֶק n c ms By me kings reign, And princes decree justice.
- Proverbs 8:16 צֶֽדֶק n c ms By me princes rule; Nobles, and all the righteous rulers of the earth.
- Proverbs 12:17 צֶ֑דֶק n c ms He who is truthful testifies honestly, But a false witness lies.
- Proverbs 16:13 צֶ֑דֶק n c ms Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They value one who speaks the truth.
- Proverbs 25:5 בַּ/צֶּ֣דֶק prep det + n c ms Take away the wicked from the king's presence, And his throne will be established in righteousness.
- Proverbs 31:9 צֶ֑דֶק n c ms Open your mouth, judge righteously, And serve justice to the poor and needy."
Ecclesiastes 3 verses
- Ecclesiastes 3:16 הַ/צֶּ֖דֶק ptcl def.art + n c ms Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
- Ecclesiastes 5:8 וָ/צֶ֨דֶק֙ conj + n c ms If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don't marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.
- Ecclesiastes 7:15 בְּ/צִדְק֔/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evil-doing.
Isaiah 25 verses
- Isaiah 1:21 צֶ֛דֶק n c ms How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, But now murderers.
- Isaiah 1:26 הַ/צֶּ֔דֶק ptcl def.art + n c ms I will restore your judges as at the first, And your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called 'The city of righteousness, A faithful town.'
- Isaiah 11:4 בְּ/צֶ֨דֶק֙ prep + n c ms but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he kill the wicked.
- Isaiah 11:5 צֶ֖דֶק n c ms Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his loins.
- Isaiah 16:5 צֶֽדֶק n c ms A throne shall be established in loving kindness; and one shall sit thereon in truth, in the tent of David, judging, and seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.
- Isaiah 26:9 צֶ֥דֶק n c ms With my soul have I desired you in the night; yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
- Isaiah 26:10 צֶ֔דֶק n c ms Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he deal wrongfully, and will not see the majesty of Yahweh.
- Isaiah 32:1 לְ/צֶ֖דֶק prep + n c ms Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.
- Isaiah 41:2 צֶ֖דֶק n c ms Who has raised up one from the east, whom he calls in righteousness to his foot? he gives nations before him, and makes him rule over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as the driven stubble to his bow.
- Isaiah 41:10 צִדְקִֽ/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Don't you be afraid, for I am with you; don't be dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you; yes, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
- Isaiah 42:6 בְ/צֶ֖דֶק prep + n c ms I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and give you for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
- Isaiah 42:21 צִדְק֑/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.
- Isaiah 45:8 צֶ֑דֶק n c ms Distil, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, that it may bring forth salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up together; I, Yahweh, have created it.
- Isaiah 45:13 בְ/צֶ֔דֶק prep + n c ms I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward, says Yahweh of Hosts.
- Isaiah 45:19 צֶ֔דֶק n c ms I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; I didn't say to the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain: I, Yahweh, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
- Isaiah 51:1 צֶ֖דֶק n c ms Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock whence you were hewn, and to the hold of the pit whence you were dug.
- Isaiah 51:5 צִדְקִ/י֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the peoples; the isles shall wait for me, and on my arm shall they trust.
- Isaiah 51:7 צֶ֔דֶק n c ms Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; don't you fear the reproach of men, neither be you dismayed at their insults.
- Isaiah 58:2 צֶ֔דֶק n c ms Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and didn't forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
- Isaiah 58:8 צִדְקֶ֔/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your healing shall spring forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of Yahweh shall by your rearward.
- Isaiah 59:4 בְ/צֶ֔דֶק prep + n c ms None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
- Isaiah 61:3 הַ/צֶּ֔דֶק ptcl def.art + n c ms to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.
- Isaiah 62:1 צִדְקָ֔/הּ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns.
- Isaiah 62:2 צִדְקֵ֔/ךְ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs The nations shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of Yahweh shall name.
- Isaiah 64:5 צֶ֔דֶק n c ms You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways: behold, you were angry, and we sinned: in them [have we been] of long time; and shall we be saved?
Jeremiah 6 verses
- Jeremiah 11:20 צֶ֔דֶק n c ms But, Yahweh of Hosts, who judge righteously, who try the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.
- Jeremiah 22:13 צֶ֔דֶק n c ms Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;
- Jeremiah 23:6 צִדְקֵֽ/נוּ n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cp In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; and this is his name by which he shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
- Jeremiah 31:23 צֶ֖דֶק n c ms Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Yet again shall they use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities of it, when I shall bring again their captivity: Yahweh bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness.
- Jeremiah 33:16 צִדְקֵֽ/נוּ n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cp In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is [the name] by which she shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
- Jeremiah 50:7 צֶ֔דֶק n c ms All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.
Ezekiel 2 verses
- Ezekiel 3:20 מִ/צִּדְק/וֹ֙ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.
- Ezekiel 45:10 צֶ֧דֶק צֶ֛דֶק צֶ֖דֶק n c ms n c ms n c ms You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Daniel 1 verse
Hosea 2 verses
- Hosea 2:19 בְּ/צֶ֣דֶק prep + n c ms I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.
- Hosea 10:12 צֶ֖דֶק n c ms Sow to yourselves in righteousness, Reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; For it is time to seek Yahweh, Until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
Zephaniah 1 verse
About this entry
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צדק — transliterated tsedeq — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “righteousness.” Alongside “righteousness” the lexicon also lists “justice” and “rightness” — part of its full sense range. It appears 112 verses across 12 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its common vocabulary. More than a third of its appearances fall in Psalms. Its earliest occurrence is Leviticus 19:15. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6664 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 112
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 112 distinct verses.
- 12 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 12 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #363
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 363 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 112 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 112 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 69 verses · 62%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 36 verses · 32%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 7 verses · 6%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Righteousness 66×, Just 10×, Justice 10×
- American Standard Version: Righteousness 61×, Just 8×, Righteous 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Righteousness 57×, Righteous 14×, Honest 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Righteousness 93×, According to my righteousness 3×, Accurate 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6664 across 116 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 16 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6664 across 118 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 35 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6664 across 116 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6664 across 120 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
15 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 15 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. what is right, just, normal; rightness, justness, of weights and measures, אֵיפָה, אֶבֶן שְׁלֵמָה וָצֶדֶק Dt 25:15 a perfect and a just weight, ephah; מֹאזְנֵי צ׳; אַבְנֵי צ׳, אֵיפַת צ׳, הִין צ׳, בַּת צ׳ Lv 19:36 (H) Jb 31:6; Ez 45:10; מַעְגְּלֵי צ׳ right paths ψ 23:3; זִבְחֵי צ׳ right peace-offerings Dt 33:19 ψ 4:6; 51:21. e.g. Deuteronomy 25:15
- 2. righteousness, in government:
- a. of judges, rulers, kings, שׁפט בצ׳ Lv 19:15 (H); שׁפט צ׳ Dt 1:16 Pr 31:9; משׁפט צ׳ Dt 16:18; רדף צ׳ v 20; חוֹקֵק צ׳ Pr 8:15; מלך לצ׳ Is 32:1; דבּר צ׳ ψ 58:2; also Pr 25:5 ψ 94:15; Ec 5:7. e.g. Leviticus 19:15
- b. of law, as מִשְׁפָּטִים Is 58:2 ψ 119:7, 62, 75, 106, 160 (𝔊, but MT מִשְׁפַּט), v 164; as עֵדוֹת v 138, 144; as מִצְוֹת v 172. e.g. Isaiah 58:2
- c. of Davidic king, Messiah Is 11:4, 5; 16:5 ψ 45:5, דין בצ׳ 72:2. e.g. Isaiah 11:4
- d. of Jerus., as seat of just government, עִיר הַצֶּדֶק Is 1:26 city of righteousness; נְוֵה צ׳ Je 31:23; 50:7 (poss. these reflect an orig. god צֶדֶק, v. מַלְכִּי צֶדֶק); צ׳ יָלִין בָּהּ Is 1:21 righteousness used to lodge in her; cf. מְקוֹם הצ׳ Ec 3:16 the place of righteousness. e.g. Isaiah 1:26
- e. of God’s attribute as sovereign Jb 36:3, husband of Israel Ho 2:21; צ׳ his personif. agent ψ 85:11, 12, 14, foundation of his throne 89:15 = 97:2; in his government ψ 9:9; 65:6; 96:13 = 98:9, promise Is 45:19, administration of justice Jb 8:3 Je 11:20 ψ 7:18; 48:11; 50:6 = 97:6, vindication of his people 9:5; 35:24, 28; raising up Cyrus Is 45:13, calling his servant 42:6; אֱלֹהֵי צִדְקִי ψ 4:2 God of my righteousness (who vindicates me); his צ׳ is everlasting 119:142. e.g. Job 36:3
- 3. righteousness, justice, in a case or cause Jb 6:29; 8:6; 29:14 ψ 35:27; Is 59:4; God שׁפט כצ׳ ψ 7:9 judges according to righteousness; גמל כצ׳ 18:21; השׁיב כצ׳ v 25; שׁמע צ׳ 17:1; הוציא צ׳ 37:6. e.g. Job 6:29
- 4. rightness, in speech, דבּר צ׳ ψ 52:5 (opp. שֶׁקֶר); יַגִּיד צ׳ Pr 12:17; בצ׳ כל אמרי פי 8:8; שִׂפְתֵי צ׳ 16:13. e.g. Psalms 52:5
- 5. righteousness, as ethically right Jb 35:2 ψ 17:15; 45:8; Pr 1:3; 2:9; Ec 7:15; Je 22:13; Ez 3:20; Ho 10:12 (read פְּרִי צ׳, so 𝔊 We Now); צ׳ עלמים Dn 9:24; עשׂה צ׳ Is 64:4 ψ 119:121; פעל צ׳ 15:2; למד צ׳ Is 26:9, 10; בקּשׁ צ׳ Zp 2:3; רדף צ׳ Is 51:1; ידע צ׳ v 7. e.g. Job 35:2
- 6. righteousness as vindicated, justification in controversy with enemies and troubles, deliverance, victory, prosperity:
- a. of God as covenant-keeping, in redemption, בִּימִין צִדְקִי Is 41:10, ‖ יֵשַׁע 45:8; 51:5, cf. 42:21; בשּׂר צ׳ ψ 40:10; אִמְרַת צ׳ 119:123. e.g. Isaiah 41:10
- b. in name יהוה צִדְקֵנוּ, of Messianic king (vindicating people’s cause and giving victory) Je 23:6; of city 33:16. e.g. Jeremiah 23:6
- c. of people as enjoying צ׳ of salvation, ‖ יְשׁוּעָה Is 62:1; ‖ כָּבוֹד 58:3; 62:2; כהנים יִלְבְּשׁוּ צ׳ ψ 132:9; שַׁעֲרֵי צ׳ 118:19; אֵילֵי הצ׳ Is 61:3. e.g. Isaiah 62:1
- d. of Cyrus, צ׳ יִקְרָאֵהוּ לְרַגְלוֹ Is 41:2 (who) in victory calleth him at every step (CheHpt. on whose steps attends victory, so Di Du). e.g. Isaiah 41:2
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.m. Is 1:21 rightness, righteousness;—צ׳ Lv 19:36 + 87 times; צִדְקִי Is 41:10 + 8 times, etc.;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from צדק (tsâdaq) (H6663) — to be righteous.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
צָדַק
- [to be clear, pure, sincere,] to be right, true, just; to be cleared. Y. Snh. IV, 22ᵇ top יכול אם צ׳ בדינך יִצְדַּק בדיני you may think, if he (the guilty) is cleared in thy court, he will also be cleared in my (God’s) court.
- 1. (cmp. (cmp. זכה) to act in favor of a person; to be liberal. B. Bath. 88ᵇ (ref. to Deut. XXV, 15) צַדֵּק משלך ותן לו be liberal with what is thine own and give it to him, i.e. add overweight and overmeasure (גֵּירוּמִים); Ḥull. 134ᵃ (ref. to the poor man’s share). Num. R. s. 2 (ref. to ואתן צדק Job XXVI, 3) צי׳ עמהם שלא וכ׳ the Lord dealt kindly with them in not changing their arrangements. e.g. Deuteronomy 25:15
- 2. to justify, declare or consider a person right; to defend. Gen. R. s. 49 (ref. to Ps. XLV, 8) אהבת לצַדֵּק את בריותי וכ׳ thou (Abraham) lovest to defend my creatures, and hatest to condemn them. Y. Snh. IV, beg. 22ᵃ צַדְּקֵיהוּ consider him to be right (a true witness), opp. חקריהו cross-examine him; Deut. R. s. 5.—Esp. צ׳ את הדין to justify God’s judgment, to submit to divine dispensation as just, to punishment as deserved. Sifra Sh’mini, introd. כיון ששמע אהרן כך צ׳ … ושתק when Aaron heard this, he submitted to divine judgment and kept his peace (Lev. X, 3). Ib. אברהם צי׳ עליו וכ׳ Abraham resigned himself to God’s will, for we read (Gen. XVIII, 27), ‘I am dust and ashes’. Ib. צִידְּקוּ עליהם וכ׳ they resigned themselves &c. Y. Sot. VIII, 22ᶜ bot. צ̇ד̇ק̇יהו שצ̇יר̇ק̇ עליו וכ׳. Shallum was surnamed Zedekiah (justifier of God), because he justified God’s judgment upon him. Ab. Zar. 18ᵃ בשעה שיצאו … צידקו עליהם וכ׳ all three of them, when they were taken out for execution, resigned themselves &c. (reciting an appropriate Bible verse); a. fr.—Part. pass. מְצוּדָּק; pl. מְצוּדָּקִים. Mekh. Mishp., s. 20 (ref. to Ex. XXIII, 8) שונא דברים המצ׳ וכ׳ he will hate the justified words (the exhortations to justice) spoken at Sinai; Yalk. Ex. 353 (not דברי). e.g. Psalms 45:8
- 1. to justify, clear, declare to be right; to make virtuous. Snh. 10ᵃ (ref. to Deut. XXV, 1) עדים שהרשיעו את הצדיק ואתו … והִצְדִּיקוּ וכ׳ when witnesses denounced an innocent man, and other witnesses came and justified him that was right, and thus exposed those (first witnesses) as wicked men; Macc. 2ᵇ. Gen. R. s. 21 (ref. to Ps. XVI, 5) לכשיקיץ … אני מַצְדִּיקוֹ מאותה גזרה when he that is created in thine (Adam’s) image shall awake (when the Messiah comes) …, then I shall clear him from this decree (of expulsion from Eden). Lev. R. s. 4, beg. (ref. to Koh. III, 16) מקום שהִצְדַּקְתִּים וכ׳ there where I made them virtuous and called them divine beings …, there they acted wickedly &c. Gen. R. s. 43 (ref. to Gen. XIV, 18) המקום הזה מַצְדִּיק וכ׳ this place (Salem-Jerusalem) makes its inhabitants righteous.—ה׳ עליו את הדין to deal strictly with. Taan. 8ᵃ כל המצדיק … מַצְדִּיקִין עליו את הדין וכ׳ he who makes himself righteous here below (who strives for righteousness) is judged righteously (strictly dealt with) in the judgment above (cmp. Yeb. 121ᵇ quot. s. v. דִּקְדֵּק). Hor. 11ᵇ (play on צדקיהו) אמר לו יה יַצְדִּיק עליך וכ׳ he (Nebuchadnezzar) said to him, Yah shall deal strictly with thee, if thou wilt rebel against me; a. fr. e.g. Deuteronomy 25:1
- 2. to treat with צְדָקָה, to be liberal towards. Y. Peah IV, end 18ᶜ (alluding to Ps. LXXXII, 3) עני ורש הַצְדִּיקוּהוּ במתנותיו (not ועשיר) treat the poor and needy liberally as regards the gifts belonging to him (v. Ḥull. 134ᵃ quot. supra).—3) ה׳ את הדין to submit to divine judgment, be resigned (v. supra). Sifra l. c. למודים צדיקים שמַצְדִּיקִים וכ׳ the righteous are wont to resign themselves to the will of God. Taan. 11ᵃ מצדיק עליו וכ׳ he acknowledges the justice of the verdict and says, you have judged me rightly &c. Ber. 19ᵃ והוא עומד ומצדיק וכ׳ he (the mourner) stands up and declares the judgment to be just &c.; a. fr.—Part. pass. מוּצְדָּק justified, lawfully qualified. Gitt. 86ᵃ (in a Chaldaic formula of sale of a slave) מ׳ לעבדו, v. עַבְדּוּתָא. e.g. Psalms 82:3
- to justify one’s self, excuse one’s self. Gen. R. s. 92 (ref. to Gen. XLIV, 16) מה נִצְטַּדָּק בדינה how can we justify ourselves for what we have done in the case of Dinah (that we killed the Shechemites)? &c.; Yalk. ib. 150. e.g. Genesis 44:16
צְדַק
- , to be clear, just. Targ. Ps. XIX, 10 צְדִיקוּ Ms. (ed. זכיאו).
- to justify, do justice to. Ib. LXXXII, 3.—א׳ דינא to acknowledge the justice of divine judgment. Taan. 22ᵇ דקא מַצְדִּיק דינא אנפשיה וכ׳ Ms. M. (ed. מצדיק עליה וכ׳) that he acknowledged the justice of God’s decree over him, saying (Lam. I, 18) &c. e.g. Lamentations 1:18
צֶדֶק
- 1. (b. h.; preced.) righteousness, justice, equity; virtue. Ḥag. 12ᵇ, v. עֲרָבוֹת I. Yalk. Deut. 907 (ref. to Deut. XVI, 9) אין יוצא ידי עולמו עד שיורה צ׳ בהוראתו he (that takes bribes) will not finish his days before he will prove that his (wrong) decision was right; Sifré Deut. 144 עד שיורוהו (corr. acc.). Midr. Till. to Ps. LVIII ed. Bub. ולא הודה בצִדְקוֹ של דוד he would not confess that David was right. Ib. בצ׳ רדפתם אחרי did you pursue me justly? או בצ׳ שפטתם אותי or did you judge me in righteousness?; a. fr.—מְשִׁיחַ צֶ׳ the true Messiah (Jer. XXIII, 6). Pesik. R. s. 37 אפרים מ׳ צִדְקִי Ephraim, my (the Lord’s) true Messiah. Ib. מ׳ צִדְקֵינוּ our true Messiah; a. fr. e.g. Deuteronomy 16:9
- 2. Tsedeḳ, the planet Jupiter. Sabb. 156ᵃ, v. צַדְקָן. Ib. 156ᵇ top דקאי צ׳ במערב because Ts. stands in the west (thy planet is declining). Gen. R. s. 43 (ref. to Is. XLI, 2) מזל צ׳ היה מאיר לו the planet Ts. shone on his (Abraham’s) way; a. fr. e.g. Isaiah 41:2
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 92 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 112 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Leviticus 19:15
- Deuteronomy 1:16
- Job 6:29
- Psalms 4:1
- Proverbs 1:3
- Ecclesiastes 3:16
- Isaiah 1:21
- Jeremiah 11:20
- Ezekiel 3:20
- Daniel 9:24
- Hosea 2:19
- Zephaniah 2:3
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
