Limitless Word
צְדָקָהtsᵉdâqâh/tsed-aw-kaw'/
HebrewH6666157 occurrences (KJV)

rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity)

KJV renders it: justice, moderately, right(-eous) (act, -ly, -ness).

Where it appears(showing the first 150 of 157)

  • Gen 15:6He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.
  • Gen 18:19For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”
  • Gen 30:33So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be considered stolen.”
  • Deut 6:25It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”
  • Deut 9:4Don’t say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, “For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land”; because Yahweh drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.
  • Deut 9:5Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
  • Deut 9:6Know therefore, that Yahweh your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.
  • Deut 24:13You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.
  • Deut 33:21He provided the first part for himself, for the lawgiver’s portion reserved was reserved for him. He came with the heads of the people. He executed the righteousness of Yahweh, His ordinances with Israel.”
  • Judg 5:11Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, there they will rehearse Yahweh’s righteous acts, the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. “Then Yahweh’s people went down to the gates.
  • 1 Sam 12:7Now therefore stand still, that I may plead with you before Yahweh concerning all the righteous acts of Yahweh, which he did to you and to your fathers.
  • 1 Sam 26:23Yahweh will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; because Yahweh delivered you into my hand today, and I wouldn’t stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed.
  • 2 Sam 8:15David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness for all his people.
  • 2 Sam 19:28For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?”
  • 2 Sam 22:21Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.
  • 2 Sam 22:25Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight.
  • 1 Kgs 3:6Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.
  • 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.
  • 1 Kgs 10:9Blessed is Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness.”
  • 1 Chr 18:14David reigned over all Israel; and he executed justice and righteousness for all his people.
  • 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.
  • 2 Chr 9:8Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on his throne, to be king for Yahweh your God; because your God loved Israel, to establish them forever. Therefore made he you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.”
  • Neh 2:20Then I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we, his servants, will arise and build; but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.”
  • Job 27:6I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
  • Job 33:26He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.
  • Job 35:8Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.
  • Job 37:23We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.
  • Ps 5:8Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.
  • Ps 11:7For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.
  • Ps 22:31They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, for he has done it.
  • Ps 24:5He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, righteousness from the God of his salvation.
  • Ps 31:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness.
  • Ps 33:5He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.
  • Ps 36:6Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
  • Ps 36:10Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart.
  • Ps 40:10I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.
  • Ps 51:14Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
  • Ps 69:27Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness.
  • Ps 71:2Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me.
  • Ps 71:15My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure.
  • Ps 71:16I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.
  • Ps 71:19Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?
  • Ps 71:24My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me.
  • Ps 72:1By Solomon. God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son.
  • Ps 72:3The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.
  • Ps 88:12Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
  • Ps 89:16In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted.
  • Ps 98:2Yahweh has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
  • Ps 99:4The King’s strength also loves justice. You do establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
  • Ps 103:6Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.
  • Ps 103:17But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;
  • Ps 106:3Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.
  • Ps 106:31That was credited to him for righteousness, for all generations to come.
  • Ps 111:3His work is honor and majesty. His righteousness endures forever.
  • Ps 112:3Wealth and riches are in his house. His righteousness endures forever.
  • Ps 112:9He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
  • Ps 119:40Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. WAW
  • Ps 119:142Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.
  • Ps 143:1A Psalm by David. Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
  • Ps 143:11Revive me, Yahweh, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.
  • Ps 145:7They will utter the memory of your great goodness, and will sing of your righteousness.
  • Prov 8:18With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity.
  • Prov 8:20I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice;
  • Prov 10:2Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
  • Prov 11:4Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
  • Prov 11:5The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
  • Prov 11:6The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.
  • Prov 11:18Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
  • Prov 11:19He who is truly righteous gets life. He who pursues evil gets death.
  • Prov 12:28In the way of righteousness is life; in its path there is no death.
  • Prov 13:6Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
  • Prov 14:34Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.
  • Prov 15:9The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.
  • Prov 16:8Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
  • Prov 16:12It is an abomination for kings to do wrong, for the throne is established by righteousness.
  • Prov 16:31Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.
  • Prov 21:3To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
  • Prov 21:21He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honor.
  • Isa 1:27Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.
  • Isa 5:7For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
  • Isa 5:16but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
  • Isa 5:23who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!
  • Isa 9:7Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.
  • Isa 10:22For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.
  • Isa 28:17I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.
  • Isa 32:16Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field.
  • Isa 32:17The work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
  • Isa 33:5Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
  • Isa 33:15He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil —
  • Isa 45:8Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.
  • Isa 45:23I have sworn by myself. The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath.
  • Isa 45:24They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.’” Even to him shall men come; and all those who raged against him shall be disappointed.
  • Isa 46:12Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness!
  • Isa 46:13I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.
  • Isa 48:1“Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness
  • Isa 48:18Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
  • Isa 51:6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment; and its inhabitants will die in the same way: but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.
  • Isa 51:8For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”
  • Isa 54:14In righteousness you will be established. You will be far from oppression, for you will not be afraid; and far from terror, for it shall not come near you.
  • Isa 54:17No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.
  • Isa 56:1Yahweh says, “Maintain justice, and do what is right; for my salvation is near, and my righteousness will soon be revealed.
  • Isa 57:12I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.
  • Isa 58:2Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.
  • Isa 59:9Therefore is justice far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
  • Isa 59:14Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter.
  • Isa 59:16He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor. Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness sustained him.
  • Isa 59:17He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.
  • Isa 60:17For brass I will bring gold; for iron I will bring silver; for wood, brass, and for stones, iron. I will also make peace your governor, and righteousness your ruler.
  • Isa 61:10I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
  • Isa 61:11For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up; so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
  • Isa 63:1Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? Who this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”
  • Isa 64:6For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
  • Jer 4:2and you shall swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.”
  • Jer 9:24But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight,” says Yahweh.
  • Jer 22:3Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.
  • Jer 22:15“Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
  • Jer 23:5“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
  • Jer 33:15“In those days, and at that time, I will cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David; and he will execute justice and righteousness in the land.
  • Jer 51:10‘Yahweh has produced our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.’
  • Ezek 3:20“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.
  • Ezek 14:14though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord Yahweh.
  • Ezek 14:20though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.”
  • Ezek 18:5“But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,
  • Ezek 18:19“Yet you say, ‘Why doesn’t the son bear the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.
  • Ezek 18:20The soul who sins, he shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.
  • Ezek 18:21“But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
  • Ezek 18:22None of his transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him. In his righteousness that he has done, he shall live.
  • Ezek 18:24“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.
  • Ezek 18:26When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die.
  • Ezek 18:27Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
  • Ezek 33:12You, son of man, tell the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his disobedience; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall he who is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sins.
  • Ezek 33:13When I tell the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he has committed, therein shall he die.
  • Ezek 33:14Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
  • Ezek 33:16None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
  • Ezek 33:18When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.
  • Ezek 33:19When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
  • Ezek 45:9Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people, says the Lord Yahweh.
  • Dan 9:7Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.
  • Dan 9:16Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.
  • Dan 9:18My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.
  • Hos 10:12Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
  • Joel 2:23“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before.
  • Amos 5:7You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:
  • Amos 5:24But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
  • Amos 6:12Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;
  • Mic 6:5My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.”
  • Mic 7:9I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness.
  • Zech 8:8and I will bring them, and they will dwell within Jerusalem; and they will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.”
  • Mal 3:3and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.
  • Mal 4:2But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

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