Strong’s H6663 · Hebrew
צָדַק
tsâdaq · tsaw-dak'
Origin a primitive root;
Meaning to be (causatively, make) right (in a moral or forensic sense)
In the King James Version cleanse, clear self, (be, do) just(-ice, -ify, -ify self), (be turn to) righteous(-ness).
In 40 verses of the King James Version
- Genesis 38:26And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.
- Genesis 44:16And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord’s servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.
- Exodus 23:7Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
- Deuteronomy 25:1If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
- 2 Samuel 15:4Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!
- 1 Kings 8:32Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
- 2 Chronicles 6:23Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.
- Job 4:17Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
- Job 9:2I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
- Job 9:15Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
- Job 9:20If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
- Job 10:15If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
- Job 11:2Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
- Job 13:18Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
- Job 15:14What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- Job 22:3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
- Job 25:4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
- Job 27:5God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
- Job 32:2Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.
- Job 33:12Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.
- Job 33:32If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.
- Job 34:5For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
- Job 35:7If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
- Job 40:8Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
- Psalms 19:9The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
- Psalms 51:4Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
- Psalms 82:3Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
- Psalms 143:2And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
- Proverbs 17:15He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.
- Isaiah 5:23Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
- Isaiah 43:9Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
- Isaiah 43:26Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
- Isaiah 45:25In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
- Isaiah 50:8He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
- Isaiah 53:11He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
- Jeremiah 3:11And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
- Ezekiel 16:51Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.
- Ezekiel 16:52Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
- Daniel 8:14And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
- Daniel 12:3And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.