צָדַק
tsâdaq · tsaw-dak'
to be (causatively, make) right (in a moral or forensic sense)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to be (causatively, make) right (in a moral or forensic sense)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: cleanse, clear self, (be, do) just(-ice, -ify, -ify self), (be turn to) righteous(-ness).
Letters
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to pursue the straight path › the doorway, the way in › what comes behind, the returning cycle
To pursue the straight path of the doorway, the way in of what comes behind, the returning cycle.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of צָדַק above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
41 occurrences · 41 OT · 0 NT · 39 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- be justified4 · 14%
- she hath been more righteous1 · 4%
- or how shall we clear ourselves1 · 4%
- thou not: for i will not justify1 · 4%
- them; then they shall justify1 · 4%
- unto me, and i would do him justice1 · 4%
- and justifying1 · 4%
- and by justifying1 · 4%
- be more just1 · 4%
- be just1 · 4%
- whom, though i were righteous1 · 4%
- if i justify1 · 4%
- unto me; and if i be righteous1 · 4%
- that i shall be justified1 · 4%
- that he should be righteous1 · 4%
- that thou art righteous1 · 4%
- that i should justify1 · 4%
- because he justified1 · 4%
- behold, in this thou art not just1 · 4%
- to justify1 · 4%
- i am righteous1 · 4%
- if thou be righteous1 · 4%
- me, that thou mayest be righteous1 · 4%
- and righteous1 · 4%
- that thou mightest be justified1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.