צְדָקָה
ṣĕdāqâ
righteousness
Strong's H6666NounHebrewTWOT 1879b

צְדָקָה (ṣĕdāqâ) is a Hebrew noun meaning righteousness. It appears 159 times in 22 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H6666).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1879b)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1879b)righteousness; truthfulness; justification, salvation; righteous acts; rightness, rectitude, justice, virtue, prosperity; moderately, right, righteous, rightly
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

צְדָקָה noun, feminine: righteousness

Strong's H6666 צְדָקָה: rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity)
KJV:justice, moderately, right(-eous) (act, -ly, -ness).

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 1879: צָדֵק ṣādēq — be just, righteous; have a just cause, be in the right, be justified; justify; do justice, declare righteous, vindicate the cause of, save, make righteous, turn to righteousness; be, make, right; cleanse, clear self, justice…

See it in Scripture

Genesis 15:6Deuteronomy 6:25Judges 5:11

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