H6664: צֶדֶק
tsedeq · pronounced tseh'-dek · “righteousness”
Definition
the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity
KJV translates it as: [idiom] even, ([idiom] that which is altogether) just(-ice), (un-)right(-eous) (cause, -ly, -ness).
Word origin: from H6663 (צָדַק);
Extended definition
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
1f3) of people enjoying salvation
1f4) of Cyrus
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H6664 is translated
- righteousness ×79
- your ×12
- my ×9
- his ×6
- is righteousness ×3
- are righteousness ×3
- of righteousness ×3
- our ×2
- its ×1
- righteousness of ×1
Bible verses with H6664 (tsedeq)
Tsedeq appears in 112 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Leviticus 19:15
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
- Leviticus 19:36
Just 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 1:16
And 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 16:18
Judges 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 16:20
That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
- Deuteronomy 25:15
But 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.
- Deuteronomy 33:19
They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
- Job 6:29
Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
- Job 8:3
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
- Job 8:6
If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
- Job 29:14
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
- Job 31:6
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
- Job 35:2
Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?
- Job 36:3
I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
- Psalms 4:1
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David. Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
- Psalms 4:5
Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the Lord.
- Psalms 7:8
The Lord shall judge the people: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
- Psalms 7:17
I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high.
- Psalms 9:4
For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.
- Psalms 9:8
And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
- Psalms 15:2
He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
- Psalms 17:1
A Prayer of David. Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
- Psalms 17:15
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
- Psalms 18:20
The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
- Psalms 18:24
Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
All 112 references
- Psalms 23:3
- Psalms 35:24
- Psalms 35:27
- Psalms 35:28
- Psalms 37:6
- Psalms 40:9
- Psalms 45:4
- Psalms 45:7
- Psalms 48:10
- Psalms 50:6
- Psalms 51:19
- Psalms 52:3
- Psalms 58:1
- Psalms 65:5
- Psalms 72:2
- Psalms 85:10
- Psalms 85:11
- Psalms 85:13
- Psalms 89:14
- Psalms 94:15
- Psalms 96:13
- Psalms 97:2
- Psalms 97:6
- Psalms 98:9
- Psalms 118:19
- Psalms 119:7
- Psalms 119:62
- Psalms 119:75
- Psalms 119:106
- Psalms 119:121
- Psalms 119:123
- Psalms 119:138
- Psalms 119:142
- Psalms 119:144
- Psalms 119:160
- Psalms 119:164
- Psalms 119:172
- Psalms 132:9
- Proverbs 1:3
- Proverbs 2:9
- Proverbs 8:8
- Proverbs 8:15
- Proverbs 8:16
- Proverbs 12:17
- Proverbs 16:13
- Proverbs 25:5
- Proverbs 31:9
- Ecclesiastes 3:16
- Ecclesiastes 5:8
- Ecclesiastes 7:15
- Isaiah 1:21
- Isaiah 1:26
- Isaiah 11:4
- Isaiah 11:5
- Isaiah 16:5
- Isaiah 26:9
- Isaiah 26:10
- Isaiah 32:1
- Isaiah 41:2
- Isaiah 41:10
- Isaiah 42:6
- Isaiah 42:21
- Isaiah 45:8
- Isaiah 45:13
- Isaiah 45:19
- Isaiah 51:1
- Isaiah 51:5
- Isaiah 51:7
- Isaiah 58:2
- Isaiah 58:8
- Isaiah 59:4
- Isaiah 61:3
- Isaiah 62:1
- Isaiah 62:2
- Isaiah 64:5
- Jeremiah 11:20
- Jeremiah 22:13
- Jeremiah 23:6
- Jeremiah 31:23
- Jeremiah 33:16
- Jeremiah 50:7
- Ezekiel 3:20
- Ezekiel 45:10
- Daniel 9:24
- Hosea 2:19
- Hosea 10:12
- Zephaniah 2:3