צְדָקָה
tse.da.qah
1. justice, righteousness
a. righteousness (in government)
1. of judge, ruler, king
2. of law
3. of Davidic king Messiah
b. righteousness (of God's attribute)
c. righteousness (in a case or cause)
d. righteousness, truthfulness
e. righteousness (as ethically right)
f. righteousness (as vindicated), justification, salvation
1. of God
2. prosperity (of people)
g. righteous acts
Aramaic equivalent: tsid.qah (צִדְקָה "righteousness" H6665)
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
Translated as (BSB)
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Concordance 150 verses
- Isaiah 56:1 צְדָקָ֑הוְצִדְקָתִ֖י
This is what the LORD says: “Maintain justice and do what is right, for My salvation is coming soon, and My righteousness will be revealed.
- Isaiah 57:12 צִדְקָתֵ֑ךְ
I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not profit you.
- Isaiah 58:2 צְדָקָ֣ה
For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”
- Isaiah 59:9 צְדָקָ֑ה
Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
- Isaiah 59:14 וּצְדָקָ֖ה
So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.
- Isaiah 59:16 וְצִדְקָת֖וֹ
He saw that there was no man; He was amazed that there was no one to intercede. So His own arm brought salvation, and His own righteousness sustained Him.
- Isaiah 59:17 צְדָקָה֙
He put on righteousness like a breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on His head; He put on garments of vengeance and wrapped Himself in a cloak of zeal.
- Isaiah 60:17 צְדָקָֽה׃
Instead of bronze I will bring you gold; I will bring silver in place of iron, bronze instead of wood, and iron instead of stones. I will appoint peace as your governor and righteousness as your ruler.
- Isaiah 61:10 צְדָקָ֖ה
I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom wears a priestly headdress, as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
- Isaiah 61:11 צְדָקָה֙
For as the earth brings forth its growth, and as a garden enables seed to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
- Isaiah 63:1 בִּצְדָקָ֖ה
Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.”
- Isaiah 64:6 צִדְקֹתֵ֑ינוּ
Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
- Jeremiah 4:2 וּבִצְדָקָ֑ה
and if you can swear, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then the nations will be blessed by Him, and in Him they will glory.”
- Jeremiah 9:24 וּצְדָקָ֖ה
But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth— for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 22:3 וּצְדָקָ֔ה
This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
- Jeremiah 22:15 וּצְדָקָ֔ה
Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.
- Jeremiah 23:5 וּצְדָקָ֖ה
Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land.
- Jeremiah 33:15 צְדָקָ֑הוּצְדָקָ֖ה
In those days and at that time I will cause to sprout for David a righteous Branch, and He will administer justice and righteousness in the land.
- Jeremiah 51:10 צִדְקֹתֵ֑ינוּ
“The LORD has brought forth our vindication; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has accomplished.”
- Ezekiel 3:20 צִדְקֹתָו֙
Now if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die in his sin, and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. And I will hold you responsible for his blood.
- Ezekiel 14:14 בְצִדְקָתָם֙
then even if these three men—Noah, Daniel, and Job—were in it, their righteousness could deliver only themselves, declares the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 14:20 בְצִדְקָתָ֖ם
then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. Their righteousness could deliver only themselves.
- Ezekiel 18:5 וּצְדָקָֽה׃
Now suppose a man is righteous and does what is just and right:
- Ezekiel 18:19 וּצְדָקָ֣ה
Yet you may ask, ‘Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live.
- Ezekiel 18:20 צִדְקַ֤ת
The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man will fall upon him.
- Ezekiel 18:21 וּצְדָקָ֑ה
But if the wicked man turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die.
- Ezekiel 18:22 בְּצִדְקָת֥וֹ
None of the transgressions he has committed will be held against him. Because of the righteousness he has practiced, he will live.
- Ezekiel 18:24 מִצִּדְקָתוֹ֙צִדְקָתוֹ
But if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, committing the same abominations as the wicked, will he live? None of the righteous acts he did will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness and sin he has committed, he will die.
- Ezekiel 18:26 מִצִּדְקָת֛וֹ
If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, he will die for this. He will die because of the iniquity he has committed.
- Ezekiel 18:27 וּצְדָקָ֑ה
But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.
- Ezekiel 33:12 צִדְקַ֣ת
Therefore, son of man, say to your people: ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked man cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. Nor will the righteous man be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.’
- Ezekiel 33:13 צִדְקָת֖וֹצִדְקָתוֹ
If I tell the righteous man that he will surely live, but he then trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, then none of his righteous works will be remembered; he will die because of the iniquity he has committed.
- Ezekiel 33:14 וּצְדָקָֽה׃
But if I tell the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ and he turns from his sin and does what is just and right—
- Ezekiel 33:16 וּצְדָקָ֛ה
None of the sins he has committed will be held against him. He has done what is just and right; he will surely live.
- Ezekiel 33:18 מִצִּדְקָת֖וֹ
If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.
- Ezekiel 33:19 וּצְדָקָ֑ה
But if a wicked man turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live because of this.
- Ezekiel 45:9 וּצְדָקָ֖ה
For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Enough, O princes of Israel! Cease your violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing My people, declares the Lord GOD.’
- Daniel 9:7 הַצְּדָקָ֔ה
To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, and all Israel near and far, in all the countries to which You have driven us because of our unfaithfulness to You.
- Daniel 9:16 צִדְקֹתֶ֙ךָ֙
O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your anger and wrath may turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all around us.
- Daniel 9:18 צִדְקֹתֵ֗ינוּ
Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great compassion.
- Hosea 10:12 לִצְדָקָה֙
Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
- Joel 2:23 לִצְדָקָ֑ה
Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
- Amos 5:7 וּצְדָקָ֖ה
There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
- Amos 5:24 וּצְדָקָ֖ה
But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
- Amos 6:12 צְדָקָ֖ה
“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
- Micah 6:5 צִדְק֥וֹת
My people, remember what Balak king of Moab counseled and what Balaam son of Beor answered. Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may acknowledge the righteousness of the LORD.’”
- Micah 7:9 בְּצִדְקָתֽוֹ׃
Because I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of the LORD, until He argues my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see His righteousness.
- Zechariah 8:8 וּבִצְדָקָֽה׃ס
I will bring them back to dwell in Jerusalem, where they will be My people, and I will be their faithful and righteous God.”
- Malachi 3:3 בִּצְדָקָֽה׃
And He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will present offerings to the LORD in righteousness.
- Malachi 4:2 צְדָקָ֔ה
“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.