Strong's #6664: tsedeq (pronounced tseh'-dek)
from 6663; the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity:--X even, (X that which is altogether) just(-ice), ((un-))right(-eous) (cause, -ly, - ness).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
tsedeq
1) justice, rightness, righteousness
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
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H6663
Usage:
This word is used 118 times:
Isaiah 61:3: "of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified."
Isaiah 62:1: "and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness,"
Isaiah 62:2: "And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new"
Isaiah 64:5: "him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou"
Jeremiah 11:20: "But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see"
Jeremiah 22:13: "Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong;"
Jeremiah 23:6: "whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS."
Jeremiah 31:23: "The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness."
Jeremiah 33:16: "is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness."
Jeremiah 50:7: "because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers."
Ezekiel 3:20: "Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock"
Ezekiel 45:10: "Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath."
Ezekiel 45:10: "Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath."
Ezekiel 45:10: "balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath."
Daniel 9:24: "for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint"
Hosea 2:19: "And I will betroth thee unto me forever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies."
Hosea 10:12: "till he come and rain righteousness"
Zephaniah 2:3: "have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid"
