צַדִּיק (tsad.diq) means “righteous” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: tsad-deek' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
צַדִּיק · tsad.diq · righteous
1) just, lawful, righteous 1a) just, righteous (in government) 1b) just, right (in one's cause) 1c) just, righteous (in conduct and character) 1d) righteous (as justified and vindicated by God) 1e) right, correct, lawful
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from H6663 (צָדַק); just
KJV glosses: just, lawful, righteous (man).
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the righteous | 44 |
| of the righteous | 39 |
| righteous | 12 |
| but the righteous | 9 |
| the righteous man | 8 |
| is righteous | 7 |
| a righteous man | 6 |
| a righteous | 4 |
| for the righteous | 4 |
| righteous ones | 4 |
| to the righteous | 4 |
| of the righteous man | 3 |
| the innocent | 3 |
| when the righteous | 3 |
| and righteous | 2 |
| are innocent | 2 |
| are righteous | 2 |
| both the righteous | 2 |
| if a righteous man | 2 |
| let the righteous | 2 |
| o righteous ones | 2 |
| a straight | 1 |
| against the righteous | 1 |
| and the righteous | 1 |
| are just | 1 |
| are more righteous | 1 |
| but a righteous man | 1 |
| but a righteous one | 1 |
| but if a righteous man | 1 |
| but righteous | 1 |
| but the righteous man | 1 |
| can the righteous | 1 |
| deprive the innocent | 1 |
| he was right | 1 |
| is a righteous | 1 |
| is a righteous man | 1 |
| it is innocent | 1 |
| let the righteous man | 1 |
| may the righteous | 1 |
| more righteous | 1 |
| my righteous | 1 |
| now if a righteous man | 1 |
| of a righteous man | 1 |
| of a tyrant | 1 |
| of the righteous deserve | 1 |
| off the righteous | 1 |
| on the righteous | 1 |
| or the just | 1 |
| righteous men | 1 |
| seems right | 1 |
| so a righteous | 1 |
| so that the innocent | 1 |
| so that the righteous | 1 |
| the just | 1 |
| the righteous one | 1 |
| those more righteous | 1 |
| to the righteous one | 1 |
| was righteous | 1 |
| will be righteous | 1 |
| with justice | 1 |
| yet a righteous one | 1 |
| you righteous ones | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| of the righteous | 38 |
| the righteous | 38 |
| righteous | 19 |
| of the just | 9 |
| but the righteous | 7 |
| just | 7 |
| the just | 7 |
| a righteous | 5 |
| for the righteous | 5 |
| and righteous | 3 |
| more righteous | 3 |
| that the righteous | 3 |
| to the just | 3 |
| to the righteous | 3 |
| a just | 2 |
| but the just | 2 |
| from thee the righteous | 2 |
| when a righteous | 2 |
| when the righteous | 2 |
| with the righteous | 2 |
| ye righteous | 2 |
| about the righteous | 1 |
| against the just | 1 |
| against the righteous | 1 |
| all righteous | 1 |
| all this that the righteous | 1 |
| also a righteous | 1 |
| and that the righteous | 1 |
| and the just | 1 |
| and the righteous | 1 |
| be just | 1 |
| be not righteous | 1 |
| behold the righteous | 1 |
| between the righteous | 1 |
| but let the righteous | 1 |
| but to the righteous | 1 |
| but when the righteous | 1 |
| for a just | 1 |
| for the just | 1 |
| from the righteous | 1 |
| him the just | 1 |
| in him but the just | 1 |
| into which the righteous | 1 |
| is righteous | 1 |
| let the righteous | 1 |
| long but the righteous | 1 |
| me a just | 1 |
| neither shall the righteous | 1 |
| not a just | 1 |
| o ye righteous | 1 |
| of a righteous | 1 |
| or the lawful | 1 |
| shall my righteous | 1 |
| shall the just | 1 |
| shall the righteous | 1 |
| surely the righteous | 1 |
| that a righteous man | 1 |
| that there be just | 1 |
| upon the righteous | 1 |
| was a just | 1 |
| what can the righteous | 1 |
| when righteous | 1 |
| ye to the righteous | 1 |
Page 4 of 4. 197 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
In my futile life I have seen both of these: A righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long in his wickedness.
Read word by wordDo not be overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
Read word by wordSurely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
Read word by wordThere is a futility that is done on the earth: There are righteous men who get what the actions of the wicked deserve, and there are wicked men who get what the actions of the righteous deserve. I say that this too is futile.
Read word by wordSo I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.
Read word by wordIt is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.
Read word by wordTell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.
Read word by wordwho acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.
Read word by wordFrom the ends of the earth we hear singing: “Glory to the Righteous One.” But I said, “I am wasting away! I am wasting away! Woe is me.” The treacherous betray; the treacherous deal in treachery.
Read word by wordOpen the gates so a righteous nation may enter—one that remains faithful.
Read word by wordThe path of the righteous is level; You clear a straight path for the upright.
Read word by wordthose who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice.
Read word by wordWho has declared this from the beginning, so that we may know, and from times past, so that we may say: ‘He was right’? No one announced it, no one foretold it, no one heard your words.
Read word by wordSpeak up and present your case—yes, let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago? Who announced it from ancient times? Was it not I, the LORD? There is no other God but Me, a righteous God and Savior; there is none but Me.
Read word by wordCan the plunder be snatched from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be delivered?
Read word by wordAfter the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.
Read word by wordThe righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one considers that the righteous are taken away from the presence of evil.
Read word by wordThen all your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever; they are the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.
Read word by wordRighteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
Read word by wordO LORD of Hosts, who examines the righteous, who sees the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.
Read word by wordBehold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land.
Read word by wordThe LORD is righteous, yet I rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.
Read word by wordBut this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.
Read word by wordNow if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die in his sin, and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. And I will hold you responsible for his blood.
Read word by wordBut if you warn the righteous man not to sin, and he does not sin, he will indeed live because he heeded your warning, and you will have saved yourself.”
Read word by wordBecause you have disheartened the righteous with your lies, even though I have caused them no grief, and because you have encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways to save their lives,
Read word by wordNow suppose a man is righteous and does what is just and right:
Read word by wordHe follows My statutes and faithfully keeps My ordinances. That man is righteous; surely he will live, declares the Lord GOD.
Read word by wordThe soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man will fall upon him.
Read word by wordBut if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, committing the same abominations as the wicked, will he live? None of the righteous acts he did will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness and sin he has committed, he will die.
Read word by wordIf a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, he will die for this. He will die because of the iniquity he has committed.
Read word by wordand tell her that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am against you, and I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.8
Because I will cut off both the righteous and the wicked, My sword will be unsheathed against everyone from south to north.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.9
But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of those who commit adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses with blood on their hands.
Read word by wordTherefore, son of man, say to your people: ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked man cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. Nor will the righteous man be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.’
Read word by wordIf I tell the righteous man that he will surely live, but he then trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, then none of his righteous works will be remembered; he will die because of the iniquity he has committed.
Read word by wordIf a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.
Read word by wordTherefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it upon us. For the LORD our God is righteous in all He does; yet we have not obeyed His voice.
Read word by wordWhoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 14.10
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals.
Read word by wordFor I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.
Read word by wordTherefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
Read word by wordYour eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
Read word by wordLook at the proud one; his soul is not upright—but the righteous will live by faith—
Read word by wordThe LORD within her is righteous; He does no wrong. He applies His justice morning by morning; He does not fail at dawn, yet the unjust know no shame.
Read word by wordRejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Read word by wordSo you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
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