Limitless Word
צָדַקtsâdaq/tsaw-dak'/
HebrewH666341 occurrences (KJV)

to be (causatively, make) right (in a moral or forensic sense)

KJV renders it: cleanse, clear self, (be, do) just(-ice, -ify, -ify self), (be turn to) righteous(-ness).

Where it appears(showing the first 40 of 41)

  • Gen 38:26Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.” He knew her again no more.
  • Gen 44:16Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? Or how will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found.”
  • Exod 23:7“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.
  • Deut 25:1If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
  • 2 Sam 15:4Absalom said moreover, “Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!”
  • 1 Kgs 8:32then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
  • 2 Chr 6:23then hear from heaven, act, and judge your servants, bringing retribution to the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
  • Job 4:17‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
  • Job 9:2“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
  • Job 9:15Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.
  • Job 9:20Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.
  • Job 10:15If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
  • Job 11:2“Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?
  • Job 13:18See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.
  • Job 15:14What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
  • Job 22:3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?
  • Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
  • Job 27:5Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
  • Job 32:2Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.
  • Job 33:12“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.
  • Job 33:32If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you.
  • Job 34:5For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
  • Job 35:7If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
  • Job 40:8Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
  • Ps 19:9The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
  • Ps 51:4Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.
  • Ps 82:3“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
  • Ps 143:2Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
  • Prov 17:15He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
  • Isa 5:23who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!
  • Isa 43:9Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled. Who among them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, “That is true.”
  • Isa 43:26Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.
  • Isa 45:25All the offspring of Israel will be justified in Yahweh, and will rejoice!
  • Isa 50:8He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
  • Isa 53:11After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.
  • Jer 3:11Yahweh said to me, “Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
  • Ezek 16:51Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all your abominations which you have done.
  • Ezek 16:52You also, bear your own shame yourself, in that you have given judgment for your sisters; through your sins that you have committed more abominable than they, they are more righteous that you. Yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.
  • Dan 8:14He said to me, To two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
  • Dan 12:3Those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the expanse; and those who turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.