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tse.da.qah H6666

צְדָקָה (tse.da.qah) means “righteousness” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

צְדָקָה Hebrew · H6666 157 tagged occurrences in 150 verses

Pronunciation guide: tsed-aw-kaw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H6666

צְדָקָה · tse.da.qah · righteousness

1) justice, righteousness 1a) righteousness (in government) 1a1) of judge, ruler, king 1a2) of law 1a3) of Davidic king Messiah 1b) righteousness (of God's attribute) 1c) righteousness (in a case or cause) 1d) righteousness, truthfulness 1e) righteousness (as ethically right) 1f) righteousness (as vindicated), justification, salvation 1f1) of God 1f2) prosperity (of people) 1g) righteous acts Aramaic equivalent: tsid.qah (צִדְקָה "righteousness" H6665)

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H6663 (צָדַק); rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity)

KJV glosses: justice, moderately, right(-eous) (act, -ly, -ness).

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How translators render H6666

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BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
and righteousness 20
righteousness 18
your righteousness 9
and right 8
of righteousness 8
his righteousness 7
in your righteousness 5
the righteousness 5
and your righteousness 3
from his righteousness 3
in righteousness 3
what is right 3
with righteousness 3
according to his righteousness 2
according to my righteousness 2
and his righteousness 2
and my righteousness 2
as righteousness 2
because of your righteousness 2
but righteousness 2
justice 2
our righteous acts 2
the righteous acts 2
their righteousness 2
a righteous 1
and his own righteousness 1
and in righteousness 1
and in your righteousness 1
and righteous 1
and the righteous acts 1
and their vindication 1
and vindication 1
are righteousness 1
because of my righteousness 1
because of the righteousness 1
belongs righteousness 1
bring righteousness 1
but my righteousness 1
by your righteousness 1
credited to you as righteousness 1
for his righteousness 1
for righteousness 1
for your vindication 1
from righteousness 1
i am bringing my righteousness 1
in your justice 1
my righteousness 1
of his righteous works 1
of justice 1
of the righteous acts 1
of your righteousness 1
or your righteousness 1
our vindication 1
right 1
right then 1
righteously 1
so my honesty 1
the righteous deeds 1
through righteousness 1
truth 1
vindication 1
will cause righteousness 1
with your righteousness 1
your righteous acts 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
righteousness 15
and righteousness 10
of righteousness 9
and justice 8
and right 7
his righteousness 6
the righteousness 6
thy righteousness 6
and thy righteousness 4
in righteousness 4
of thy righteousness 4
and his righteousness 3
and in righteousness 3
from his righteousness 3
justice 3
me in thy righteousness 3
with righteousness 3
after righteousness 2
and my righteousness 2
by righteousness 2
by their righteousness 2
him according to his righteousness 2
in thy righteousness 2
me according to my righteousness 2
my righteousness 2
the righteous acts 2
according to all thy righteousness 1
all his righteousness 1
all his righteousnesses 1
and all our righteousnesses 1
and in thy righteousness 1
and it shall be our righteousness 1
and let righteousness 1
and their righteousness 1
and with justice 1
as righteousness 1
but my righteousness 1
but righteousness 1
for my righteousness 1
for righteousness 1
from us neither doth justice 1
have i righteousness 1
him and his righteousness 1
into thy righteousness 1
it for thy righteousness 1
it to him for righteousness 1
moderately 1
nor in righteousness 1
nor right 1
not for thy righteousness 1
nothing but righteousness 1
of all the righteous acts 1
of justice 1
our righteousness 1
righteously 1
sake for thy righteousness 1
so shall my righteousness 1
the justice 1
thee and it shall be righteousness 1
thee and thy righteousness 1
thee for our righteousnesses 1
to his own righteousness 1
to yourselves in righteousness 1
unto him and his righteousness 1
unto him for righteousness 1
unto him in his righteousness 1
what right 1
will cause righteousness 1

Verses containing H6666

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  1. Isaiah 56:1 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    This is what the LORD says: “Maintain justice and do what is right, for My salvation is coming soon, and My righteousness will be revealed.

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  2. Isaiah 57:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not profit you.

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  3. Isaiah 58:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”

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  4. Isaiah 59:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

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  5. Isaiah 59:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.

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  6. Isaiah 59:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He saw that there was no man; He was amazed that there was no one to intercede. So His own arm brought salvation, and His own righteousness sustained Him.

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  7. Isaiah 59:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He put on righteousness like a breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on His head; He put on garments of vengeance and wrapped Himself in a cloak of zeal.

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  8. Isaiah 60:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Instead of bronze I will bring you gold; I will bring silver in place of iron, bronze instead of wood, and iron instead of stones. I will appoint peace as your governor and righteousness as your ruler.

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  9. Isaiah 61:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom wears a priestly headdress, as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

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  10. Isaiah 61:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For as the earth brings forth its growth, and as a garden enables seed to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

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  11. Isaiah 63:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.”

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  12. Isaiah 64:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.

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    Source alternate reference: 64.5

  13. Jeremiah 4:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and if you can swear, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then the nations will be blessed by Him, and in Him they will glory.”

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  14. Jeremiah 9:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.

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    Source alternate reference: 9.23

  15. Jeremiah 22:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.

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  16. Jeremiah 22:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.

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  17. Jeremiah 23:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Behold, 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.

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  18. Jeremiah 33:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    In those days and at that time I will cause to sprout for David a righteous Branch, and He will administer justice and righteousness in the land.

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  19. Jeremiah 51:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “The LORD has brought forth our vindication; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has accomplished.”

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  20. Ezekiel 3:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now 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.

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  21. Ezekiel 14:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    then even if these three men—Noah, Daniel, and Job—were in it, their righteousness could deliver only themselves, declares the Lord GOD.

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  22. Ezekiel 14:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. Their righteousness could deliver only themselves.

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  23. Ezekiel 18:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now suppose a man is righteous and does what is just and right:

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  24. Ezekiel 18:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Yet you may ask, ‘Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live.

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  25. Ezekiel 18:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The 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.

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  26. Ezekiel 18:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But if the wicked man turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die.

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  27. Ezekiel 18:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    None of the transgressions he has committed will be held against him. Because of the righteousness he has practiced, he will live.

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  28. Ezekiel 18:24 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    But 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.

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  29. Ezekiel 18:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If 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.

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  30. Ezekiel 18:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.

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  31. Ezekiel 33:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Therefore, 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.’

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  32. Ezekiel 33:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    If 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.

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  33. Ezekiel 33:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But if I tell the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ and he turns from his sin and does what is just and right—

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  34. Ezekiel 33:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    None of the sins he has committed will be held against him. He has done what is just and right; he will surely live.

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  35. Ezekiel 33:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.

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  36. Ezekiel 33:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But if a wicked man turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live because of this.

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  37. Ezekiel 45:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Enough, O princes of Israel! Cease your violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing My people, declares the Lord GOD.’

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  38. Daniel 9:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, and all Israel near and far, in all the countries to which You have driven us because of our unfaithfulness to You.

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  39. Daniel 9:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your anger and wrath may turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all around us.

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  40. Daniel 9:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great compassion.

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  41. Hosea 10:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.

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  42. Joel 2:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.

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  43. Amos 5:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.

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  44. Amos 5:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

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  45. Amos 6:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

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  46. Micah 6:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    My people, remember what Balak king of Moab counseled and what Balaam son of Beor answered. Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may acknowledge the righteousness of the LORD.’”

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  47. Micah 7:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Because I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of the LORD, until He argues my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see His righteousness.

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  48. Zechariah 8:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I will bring them back to dwell in Jerusalem, where they will be My people, and I will be their faithful and righteous God.”

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  49. Malachi 3:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will present offerings to the LORD in righteousness.

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  50. Malachi 4:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.

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    Source alternate reference: 3.20

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