צִדְקִיָּה
Tsidqîyâh · tsid-kee-yaw'
Tsidkijah, the name of six Israelites
Lexicon
Derivation: or צִדְקִיָּהוּ; from H6664 (צֶדֶק) and H3050 (יָהּ); right of Jah;
Tsidkijah, the name of six Israelites
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Zedekiah, Zidkijah.
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
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to pursue the straight path › the doorway, the way in › what comes behind, the returning cycle › the hand that works › to reveal, behold
To pursue the straight path of the doorway, the way in of what comes behind, the returning cycle of the hand that works that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of צִדְקִיָּה 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
63 occurrences · 63 OT · 0 NT · 26 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- zedekiah18 · 29%
- of zedekiah11 · 17%
- and zedekiah7 · 11%
- then zedekiah5 · 8%
- unto zedekiah4 · 6%
- to zedekiah3 · 5%
- that zedekiah2 · 3%
- but zedekiah1 · 2%
- and made zedekiah1 · 2%
- and zidkijah1 · 2%
- also to zedekiah1 · 2%
- whom zedekiah1 · 2%
- and of zedekiah1 · 2%
- thee like zedekiah1 · 2%
- for zedekiah1 · 2%
- o zedekiah1 · 2%
- so zedekiah1 · 2%
- and it came to pass, that when zedekiah1 · 2%
- zedekiah's1 · 2%
- with zedekiah1 · 2%
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.