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:
Amos 5:24: "But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream."
Amos 6:12: "judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:"
Micah 6:5: "Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD."
Micah 7:9: "for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness."
Zechariah 8:8: "will be their God, in truth and in righteousness."
Malachi 3:3: "that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness."
Malachi 4:2: "But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth,"
