צַדִּיקtsaddîyq
just, righteous
Pronunciation: tsad-deek' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6662
Meanings
1. just, righteous, in government
a. of Davidic king (2 Samuel 23:3; Jeremiah 23:5; Zechariah 9:9)
b. of judges (Ezekiel 23:45; Proverbs 29:2)
c. of law (Deuteronomy 4:8)
d. of God (Deuteronomy 32:4; Psalms 119:137; Psalms 129:4)
2. just, right, in one's cause (Exodus 23:7; Exodus 23:8; Deuteronomy 16:19)
3. just, righteous, in conduct and character
a. towards God (Genesis 7:1; Genesis 18:23; Genesis 18:24)
b. in general, ethically (Psalms 5:13; Psalms 7:10; Psalms 11:3)
4. righteous, as justified and vindicated by ׳ י, especially servant of ׳ י (Isaiah 53:11; Isaiah 60:21; Psalms 33:1)
5. right, correct (Isaiah 41:26; Isaiah 43:9; Isaiah 49:24)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 206 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 6:9 This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, the only blameless person living on earth at the time, and he walked in close fellowship with God.
- Genesis 7:1 When everything was ready, the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the boat with all your family, for among all the people of the earth, I can see that you alone are righteous.
- Genesis 18:23 Abraham approached him and said, “Will you sweep away both the righteous and the wicked?
- Genesis 18:24 Suppose you find fifty righteous people living there in the city—will you still sweep it away and not spare it for their sakes?
- Genesis 18:25 Surely you wouldn’t do such a thing, destroying the righteous along with the wicked. Why, you would be treating the righteous and the wicked exactly the same! Surely you wouldn’t do that! Should not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”
- Genesis 18:26 And the Lord replied, “If I find fifty righteous people in Sodom, I will spare the entire city for their sake.”
See every passage
- Genesis 6:9, 7:1, 18:23, 18:24, 18:25, 18:26, 18:28, 20:4
- Exodus 9:27, 23:7, 23:8
- Deuteronomy 4:8, 16:19, 25:1, 32:4
- 1 Samuel 24:17
- 2 Samuel 4:11, 23:3
- 1 Kings 2:32, 8:32
- 2 Kings 10:9
- 2 Chronicles 6:23, 12:6
- Ezra 9:15
- Nehemiah 9:8, 9:33
- Job 12:4, 17:9, 22:19, 27:17, 32:1, 34:17, 36:7
- Psalms 1:5, 1:6, 5:12, 7:9, 7:11, 11:3, 11:5, 11:7, 14:5, 31:18, 32:11, 33:1, 34:15, 34:19, 34:21, 37:12, 37:16, 37:17, 37:21, 37:25, 37:29, 37:30, 37:32, 37:39, 52:6, 55:22, 58:10, 58:11, 64:10, 68:3, 69:28, 72:7, 75:10, 92:12, 94:21, 97:11, 97:12, 112:4, 112:6, 116:5, 118:15, 118:20, 119:137, 125:3, 129:4, 140:13, 141:5, 142:7, 145:17, 146:8
- Proverbs 2:20, 3:33, 4:18, 9:9, 10:3, 10:6, 10:7, 10:11, 10:16, 10:20, 10:21, 10:24, 10:25, 10:28, 10:30, 10:31, 10:32, 11:8, 11:9, 11:10, 11:21, 11:23, 11:28, 11:30, 11:31, 12:3, 12:5, 12:7, 12:10, 12:12, 12:13, 12:21, 12:26, 13:5, 13:9, 13:21, 13:22, 13:25, 14:19, 14:32, 15:6, 15:28, 15:29, 17:15, 17:26, 18:5, 18:10, 18:17, 20:7, 21:12, 21:15, 21:18, 21:26, 23:24, 24:15, 24:16, 24:24, 25:26, 28:1, 28:12, 28:28, 29:2, 29:6, 29:7, 29:16, 29:27
- Ecclesiastes 3:17, 7:15, 7:16, 7:20, 8:14, 9:1, 9:2
- Isaiah 3:10, 5:23, 24:16, 26:2, 26:7, 29:21, 41:26, 45:21, 49:24, 53:11, 57:1, 60:21
- Jeremiah 12:1, 20:12, 23:5
- Lamentations 1:18, 4:13
- Ezekiel 3:20, 3:21, 13:22, 18:5, 18:9, 18:20, 18:24, 18:26, 21:3, 21:4, 23:45, 33:12, 33:13, 33:18
- Daniel 9:14
- Hosea 14:9
- Amos 2:6, 5:12
- Habakkuk 1:4, 1:13, 2:4
- Zephaniah 3:5
- Zechariah 9:9
- Malachi 3:18
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).