# צֶדֶק (tsedeq)

Israeli respelling: tse-deq. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H6664. 112 Old Testament occurrences.

the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity

King James renderings: [idiom] even, ([idiom] that which is altogether) just(-ice), (un-)right(-eous) (cause, -ly, -ness).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/tsedeq-h6664

## Occurrences

- [Leviticus 19:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/19/15) — 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 right…
- [Leviticus 19:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/19/36) — 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 Egyp…
- [Deuteronomy 1:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/1/16) — And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brot…
- [Deuteronomy 16:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/16/18) — 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…
- [Deuteronomy 16:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/16/20) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/25/15) — 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 whic…
- [Deuteronomy 33:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/33/19) — They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of t…
- [Job 6:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/29) — Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
- [Job 8:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/8/3) — Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
- [Job 8:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/8/6) — If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
- [Job 29:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/29/14) — I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
- [Job 31:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/31/6) — Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.
- [Job 35:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/35/2) — Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?
- [Job 36:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/36/3) — I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
- [Psalms 4:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/4/1) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/4/5) — Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.
- [Psalms 7:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/7/8) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/7/17) — I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.
- [Psalms 9:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/9/4) — For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.
- [Psalms 9:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/9/8) — And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
- [Psalms 15:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/15/2) — He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
- [Psalms 17:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/17/1) — Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
- [Psalms 17:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/17/15) — As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
- [Psalms 18:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/18/20) — The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
- [Psalms 18:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/18/24) — Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
- [Psalms 23:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/23/3) — He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
- [Psalms 35:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/35/24) — Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
- [Psalms 35:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/35/27) — 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 p…
- [Psalms 35:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/35/28) — And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
- [Psalms 37:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/37/6) — And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
- [Psalms 40:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/40/9) — I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
- [Psalms 45:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/45/4) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/45/7) — Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
- [Psalms 48:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/48/10) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/50/6) — And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
- [Psalms 51:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/51/19) — Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bulloc…
- [Psalms 52:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/52/3) — Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
- [Psalms 58:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/58/1) — Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
- [Psalms 65:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/65/5) — 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 o…
- [Psalms 72:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/72/2) — He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
- [Psalms 85:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/85/10) — Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
- [Psalms 85:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/85/11) — Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
- [Psalms 85:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/85/13) — Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.
- [Psalms 89:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/89/14) — Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
- [Psalms 94:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/94/15) — But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
- [Psalms 96:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/96/13) — 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 trut…
- [Psalms 97:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/97/2) — Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
- [Psalms 97:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/97/6) — The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.
- [Psalms 98:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/98/9) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/118/19) — Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:
- [Psalms 119:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/7) — I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
- [Psalms 119:62](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/62) — At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.
- [Psalms 119:75](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/75) — I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
- [Psalms 119:106](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/106) — I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.
- [Psalms 119:121](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/121) — I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
- [Psalms 119:123](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/123) — Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
- [Psalms 119:138](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/138) — Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.
- [Psalms 119:142](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/142) — Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
- [Psalms 119:144](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/144) — The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
- [Psalms 119:160](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/160) — Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
- [Psalms 119:164](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/164) — Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.
- [Psalms 119:172](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/172) — My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
- [Psalms 132:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/132/9) — Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.
- [Proverbs 1:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/1/3) — To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
- [Proverbs 2:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/2/9) — Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
- [Proverbs 8:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/8/8) — All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
- [Proverbs 8:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/8/15) — By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
- [Proverbs 8:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/8/16) — By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
- [Proverbs 12:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/12/17) — He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
- [Proverbs 16:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/16/13) — Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.
- [Proverbs 25:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/25/5) — Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
- [Proverbs 31:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/31/9) — Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
- [Ecclesiastes 3:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/3/16) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/5/8) — 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 th…
- [Ecclesiastes 7:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/7/15) — 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 pr…
- [Isaiah 1:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/1/21) — How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
- [Isaiah 1:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/1/26) — 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 righteo…
- [Isaiah 11:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/11/4) — 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 ro…
- [Isaiah 11:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/11/5) — And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
- [Isaiah 16:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/16/5) — 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,…
- [Isaiah 26:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/26/9) — 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 eart…
- [Isaiah 26:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/26/10) — 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 beh…
- [Isaiah 32:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/32/1) — Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
- [Isaiah 41:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/41/2) — 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 t…
- [Isaiah 41:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/41/10) — 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 the…
- [Isaiah 42:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/42/6) — 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…
- [Isaiah 42:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/42/21) — The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
- [Isaiah 45:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/45/8) — Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and l…
- [Isaiah 45:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/45/13) — 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 pri…
- [Isaiah 45:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/45/19) — 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 righteou…
- [Isaiah 51:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/51/1) — 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…
- [Isaiah 51:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/51/5) — 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 s…
- [Isaiah 51:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/51/7) — 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…
- [Isaiah 58:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/58/2) — 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 a…
- [Isaiah 58:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/58/8) — Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee;…
- [Isaiah 59:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/59/4) — None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquit…
- [Isaiah 61:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/61/3) — 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 spi…
- [Isaiah 62:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/62/1) — 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,…
- [Isaiah 62:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/62/2) — 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…
- [Isaiah 64:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/64/5) — Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned…
- [Jeremiah 11:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/11/20) — 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…
- [Jeremiah 22:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/22/13) — Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and g…
- [Jeremiah 23:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/23/6) — 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 RIGHTEOUSNES…
- [Jeremiah 31:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/31/23) — 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 s…
- [Jeremiah 33:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/33/16) — 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 righ…
- [Jeremiah 50:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/50/7) — All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitatio…
- [Ezekiel 3:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/3/20) — Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: be…
- [Ezekiel 45:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/45/10) — Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
- [Daniel 9:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/9/24) — 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 r…
- [Hosea 2:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/2/19) — 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…
- [Hosea 10:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/10/12) — 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 righ…
- [Zephaniah 2:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/2/3) — 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 i…