צֶדֶקtsedeq
rightness, righteousness
Pronunciation: tseh'-dek · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6664
Meanings
1. what is right, just, normal; rightness, justness (Deuteronomy 25:15; Leviticus 19:36; Job 31:6)
2. righteousness, in government
a. of judges, rulers, kings (Leviticus 19:15; Deuteronomy 1:16; Proverbs 31:9)
b. of law (Isaiah 58:2; Psalms 119:7; Psalms 119:62)
c. of Davidic king, Messiah (Isaiah 11:4; Isaiah 11:5; Isaiah 16:5)
d. of Jerusalem, as seat of just government (Isaiah 1:26; Jeremiah 31:23; Jeremiah 50:7)
e. of God's attribute (Job 36:3; Hosea 2:21; Psalms 85:11)
3. righteousness, justice, in a case or cause (Job 6:29; Job 8:6; Job 29:14)
4. rightness, in speech (Psalms 52:5; Proverbs 12:17; Proverbs 8:8)
5. righteousness, as ethically right (Job 35:2; Psalms 17:15; Psalms 45:8)
6. deliverance, victory, prosperity, righteousness as vindicated, justification in controversy with enemies and troubles
a. of God as covenant-keeping, in redemption (Isaiah 41:10; Isaiah 45:8; Isaiah 51:5)
b. in name יהוה צִדְקֵנוּ, of Messianic king (vindicating people's cause and giving victory) (Jeremiah 23:6; Jeremiah 33:16)
c. of people as enjoying ׳ צ of salvation (Isaiah 62:1; Isaiah 58:8; Isaiah 62:2)
d. of Cyrus (Isaiah 41:2)
Same root
- צָדַקtsâdaq · H6663to be (causatively, make) right (in a moral or forensic sense)
- אֲדֹנִי־צֶדֶקʼĂdônîy-Tsedeq · H139Adoni-Tsedek, a Canaanitish king
- יְהֹוָה צִדְקֵנוּYᵉhôvâh tsidqênûw · H3072Jehovah-Tsidkenu, a symbolical epithet of the Messiah and of Jerusalem
- מַלְכִּי־צֶדֶקMalkîy-Tsedeq · H4442Malki-Tsedek, an early king in Palestine
- צִדְקִיָּהTsidqîyâh · H6667Tsidkijah, the name of six Israelites
Where it appears
Appears 119 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 19:15 “Do not twist justice in legal matters by favoring the poor or being partial to the rich and powerful. Always judge people fairly.
- Leviticus 19:36 Your scales and weights must be accurate. Your containers for measuring dry materials or liquids must be accurate. I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 1:16 “At that time I instructed the judges, ‘You must hear the cases of your fellow Israelites and the foreigners living among you. Be perfectly fair in your decisions
- Deuteronomy 16:18 “Appoint judges and officials for yourselves from each of your tribes in all the towns the Lord your God is giving you. They must judge the people fairly.
- Deuteronomy 16:20 Let true justice prevail, so you may live and occupy the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
- Deuteronomy 25:15 Yes, always use honest weights and measures, so that you may enjoy a long life in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
See every passage
- Leviticus 19:15, 19:36
- Deuteronomy 1:16, 16:18, 16:20, 25:15, 33:19
- Job 6:29, 8:3, 8:6, 29:14, 31:6, 35:2, 36:3
- Psalms 4:1, 4:5, 7:8, 7:17, 9:4, 9:8, 15:2, 17:1, 17:15, 18:20, 18:24, 23:3, 35:24, 35:27, 35:28, 37:6, 40:9, 45:4, 45:7, 48:10, 50:6, 51:19, 52:3, 58:1, 65:5, 72:2, 85:10, 85:11, 85:13, 89:14, 94:15, 96:13, 97:2, 97:6, 98:9, 118:19, 119:7, 119:62, 119:75, 119:106, 119:121, 119:123, 119:138, 119:142, 119:144, 119:160, 119:164, 119:172, 132:9
- Proverbs 1:3, 2:9, 8:8, 8:15, 8:16, 12:17, 16:13, 25:5, 31:9
- Ecclesiastes 3:16, 5:8, 7:15
- Isaiah 1:21, 1:26, 11:4, 11:5, 16:5, 26:9, 26:10, 32:1, 41:2, 41:10, 42:6, 42:21, 45:8, 45:13, 45:19, 51:1, 51:5, 51:7, 58:2, 58:8, 59:4, 61:3, 62:1, 62:2, 64:5
- Jeremiah 11:20, 22:13, 23:6, 31:23, 33:16, 50:7
- Ezekiel 3:20, 45:10
- Daniel 9:24
- Hosea 2:19, 10:12
- Zephaniah 2:3
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).