Strong's #6666: tsdaqah (pronounced tsed-aw-kaw')
from 6663; rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity):--justice, moderately, right(-eous) (act, -ly, -ness).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
tsedâqâh
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
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from H6663
Usage:
This word is used 157 times:
Isaiah 51:8: "and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation from generation"
Isaiah 54:14: " In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear:"
Isaiah 54:17: "This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith"
Isaiah 56:1: "Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come,"
Isaiah 56:1: "my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed."
Isaiah 57:12: "I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit"
Isaiah 58:2: "my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance"
Isaiah 59:9: "Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait"
Isaiah 59:14: "And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for"
Isaiah 59:16: "intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained"
Isaiah 59:17: "For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments"
Isaiah 60:17: "thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness."
Isaiah 61:10: "me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments,"
Isaiah 61:11: "so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all"
Isaiah 63:1: "traveling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save."
Isaiah 64:6: "all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade"
Jeremiah 4:2: "liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."
Jeremiah 9:24: "am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these"
Jeremiah 22:3: "the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand"
Jeremiah 22:15: "and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well"
Jeremiah 23:5: "and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth."
Jeremiah 33:15: "and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment"
Jeremiah 33:15: "unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land."
Jeremiah 51:10: "The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion"
Ezekiel 3:20: "thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not"
Ezekiel 14:14: "it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD."
Ezekiel 14:20: "daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness."
Ezekiel 18:5: "just, and do that which is lawful and right,"
Ezekiel 18:19: "When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes,"
Ezekiel 18:20: "bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness"
Ezekiel 18:21: "all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not"
Ezekiel 18:22: "he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live."
Ezekiel 18:24: "But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all"
Ezekiel 18:24: "the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not"
Ezekiel 18:26: "When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in"
Ezekiel 18:27: "that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive."
Ezekiel 33:12: "unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day"
Ezekiel 33:13: "that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all"
Ezekiel 33:13: "his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity"
Ezekiel 33:14: "if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;"
Ezekiel 33:16: "he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live."
Ezekiel 33:18: "When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die"
Ezekiel 33:19: "from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby."
Ezekiel 45:9: "and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from"
Daniel 9:7: "O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah,"
Daniel 9:16: "O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city"
Daniel 9:18: "our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies."
Hosea 10:12: "Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time"
Joel 2:23: "he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain"
Amos 5:7: "judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,"
