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Strong's H6664 צֶדֶק (tsedeq)

tsedeq - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.

Strong's Number H6664
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 111
Books 12

Strong's H6664 Quick Answer

Strong's H6664 צֶּדֶק (tsedeq) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. tsedeq (tseh'-dek) n-m. 1. the right (natural, moral or legal) 2. (abstractly) equity It has 111 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include right, equity, even, and prosperity. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
tsedeq (tseh'-dek) n-m. 1. the right (natural, moral or legal) 2. (abstractly) equity
Usage
111 linked usages
Books
12 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
right, equity, even, and prosperity

Meaning and Definition

tsedeq (tseh'-dek) n-m. 1. the right (natural, moral or legal) 2. (abstractly) equity 3. (figuratively) prosperity [from H6663] KJV: X even, (X that which is altogether) just(-ice), ((un-))right(-eous) (cause, -ly, - ness). Root(s): H6663

Original Word
צֶּדֶק
Transliteration
tsedeq
Derivation
Root: צדק First root strongs: 6663
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H6664. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

righteousness

Usage: 1) justice, rightness, righteousness 1a) what is right or just or normal, rightness, justness (of weights and measures) 1b) righteousness (in government) 1b1) of judges, rulers, kings 1b2) of law 1b3) of Davidic king, Messiah 1b4) of Jerusalem as seat of just government 1b5) of God's attribute 1c) righteousness, justice (in case or cause) 1d) rightness (in speech) 1e) righteousness (as ethically right) 1f) righteousness (as vindicated), justification (in controversy), deliverance, victory, prosperity 1f1) of God as

covenant-keeping in redemption 1f2) in name of Messianic king 1f3) of people enjoying salvation 1f4) of Cyrus

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How Strong's H6664 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render tsedeq, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

right Job 35:2 equity Psalms 98:9 even Job 31:6 prosperity Psalms 35:27

How Strong's H6664 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 111 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H6664 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H6664 in the Old Testament

111 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Leviticus 19:15 KJV

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

Leviticus 19:36 KJV

Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 1:16 KJV

And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.

Usage Excerpts

First 111 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6664.

Leviticus 19:15 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Leviticus 19:36 Old Testament, KJV
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 1:16 Old Testament, KJV
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
Deuteronomy 16:18 Old Testament, KJV
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
Deuteronomy 16:20 Old Testament, KJV
That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Deuteronomy 25:15 Old Testament, KJV
But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Deuteronomy 33:19 Old Testament, KJV
They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
Job 6:29 Old Testament, KJV
Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
Job 8:3 Old Testament, KJV
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
Job 8:6 Old Testament, KJV
If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
Job 29:14 Old Testament, KJV
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
Job 31:6 Old Testament, KJV
Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.
Job 35:2 Old Testament, KJV
Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
Job 36:3 Old Testament, KJV
I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
Psalms 4:1 Old Testament, KJV
Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
Psalms 4:5 Old Testament, KJV
Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.
Psalms 7:8 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
Psalms 7:17 Old Testament, KJV
I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.
Psalms 9:4 Old Testament, KJV
For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.
Psalms 9:8 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
Psalms 15:2 Old Testament, KJV
He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
Psalms 17:1 Old Testament, KJV
Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
Psalms 17:15 Old Testament, KJV
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
Psalms 18:20 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
Psalms 18:24 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
Psalms 23:3 Old Testament, KJV
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Psalms 35:24 Old Testament, KJV
Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
Psalms 35:27 Old Testament, KJV
Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
Psalms 35:28 Old Testament, KJV
And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
Psalms 37:6 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
Psalms 40:9 Old Testament, KJV
I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
Psalms 45:4 Old Testament, KJV
And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
Psalms 45:7 Old Testament, KJV
Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Psalms 48:10 Old Testament, KJV
According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
Psalms 50:6 Old Testament, KJV
And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
Psalms 51:19 Old Testament, KJV
Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
Psalms 52:3 Old Testament, KJV
Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
Psalms 58:1 Old Testament, KJV
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
Psalms 65:5 Old Testament, KJV
By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
Psalms 72:2 Old Testament, KJV
He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
Psalms 85:10 Old Testament, KJV
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Psalms 85:11 Old Testament, KJV
Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
Psalms 85:13 Old Testament, KJV
Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.
Psalms 89:14 Old Testament, KJV
Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
Psalms 94:15 Old Testament, KJV
But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
Psalms 96:13 Old Testament, KJV
Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
Psalms 97:2 Old Testament, KJV
Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
Psalms 97:6 Old Testament, KJV
The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.
Psalms 98:9 Old Testament, KJV
Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
Psalms 118:19 Old Testament, KJV
Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:
Psalms 119:7 Old Testament, KJV
I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
Psalms 119:62 Old Testament, KJV
At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.
Psalms 119:75 Old Testament, KJV
I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
Psalms 119:106 Old Testament, KJV
I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.
Psalms 119:121 Old Testament, KJV
I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
Psalms 119:123 Old Testament, KJV
Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
Psalms 119:138 Old Testament, KJV
Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.
Psalms 119:142 Old Testament, KJV
Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
Psalms 119:144 Old Testament, KJV
The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
Psalms 119:160 Old Testament, KJV
Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
Psalms 119:164 Old Testament, KJV
Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.
Psalms 119:172 Old Testament, KJV
My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
Psalms 132:9 Old Testament, KJV
Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.
Proverbs 1:3 Old Testament, KJV
To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
Proverbs 2:9 Old Testament, KJV
Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
Proverbs 8:8 Old Testament, KJV
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
Proverbs 8:15 Old Testament, KJV
By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
Proverbs 12:17 Old Testament, KJV
He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
Proverbs 16:13 Old Testament, KJV
Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.
Proverbs 25:5 Old Testament, KJV
Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Proverbs 31:9 Old Testament, KJV
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Ecclesiastes 3:16 Old Testament, KJV
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
Ecclesiastes 5:8 Old Testament, KJV
If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
Ecclesiastes 7:15 Old Testament, KJV
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
Isaiah 1:21 Old Testament, KJV
How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
Isaiah 1:26 Old Testament, KJV
And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
Isaiah 11:4 Old Testament, KJV
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
Isaiah 11:5 Old Testament, KJV
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
Isaiah 16:5 Old Testament, KJV
And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
Isaiah 26:9 Old Testament, KJV
With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
Isaiah 26:10 Old Testament, KJV
Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
Isaiah 32:1 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
Isaiah 41:2 Old Testament, KJV
Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
Isaiah 41:10 Old Testament, KJV
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
Isaiah 42:6 Old Testament, KJV
I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
Isaiah 42:21 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
Isaiah 45:8 Old Testament, KJV
Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
Isaiah 45:13 Old Testament, KJV
I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah 45:19 Old Testament, KJV
I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
Isaiah 51:1 Old Testament, KJV
Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
Isaiah 51:5 Old Testament, KJV
My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.
Isaiah 51:7 Old Testament, KJV
Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
Isaiah 58:2 Old Testament, KJV
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
Isaiah 58:8 Old Testament, KJV
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy reward.
Isaiah 59:4 Old Testament, KJV
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Isaiah 61:3 Old Testament, KJV
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
Isaiah 62:1 Old Testament, KJV
For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
Isaiah 62:2 Old Testament, KJV
And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.
Isaiah 64:5 Old Testament, KJV
Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
Jeremiah 11:20 Old Testament, KJV
But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
Jeremiah 22:13 Old Testament, KJV
Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
Jeremiah 23:6 Old Testament, KJV
In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Jeremiah 31:23 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.
Jeremiah 33:16 Old Testament, KJV
In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.
Jeremiah 50:7 Old Testament, KJV
All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.
Ezekiel 3:20 Old Testament, KJV
Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Ezekiel 45:10 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Daniel 9:24 Old Testament, KJV
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Hosea 2:19 Old Testament, KJV
And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.
Hosea 10:12 Old Testament, KJV
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
Zephaniah 2:3 Old Testament, KJV
Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD's anger.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6664, grouped by book.

Leviticus 2 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 5 usages, Old Testament
Job 7 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 49 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 8 usages, Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 3 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 25 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 6 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 2 usages, Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Old Testament
Hosea 2 usages, Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H6664 FAQ

What does tsedeq (צֶדֶק) mean?

Strong's H6664 is a Hebrew entry for H6664 צֶּדֶק (tsedeq). tsedeq (tseh'-dek) n-m. 1. the right (natural, moral or legal) 2. (abstractly) equity

How many times is tsedeq (צֶדֶק) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 111 linked usages for Strong's H6664 across 12 books.

Where can I study tsedeq (צֶדֶק) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6664 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate tsedeq (צֶדֶק)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as right, equity, even, and prosperity. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.