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Tsedaqah

Tsedaqah (צְדָקָה):

Meaning: Carries a more practical or relational connotation, emphasizing acts of righteousness, charity, or benevolence. It can refer to righteous behavior, especially in terms of kindness, generosity, or fulfilling obligations to others, particularly the poor or needy.

Usage: Tsedaqah is frequently associated with compassionate actions, almsgiving, or social justice. In later Jewish tradition, it became strongly linked to the concept of charitable giving.

Example: In Genesis 18:19, tsedaqah is paired with "mishpat" (justice) to describe Abraham’s call to live rightly and justly, implying both moral conduct and active care for others.

Context: Tsedaqah often highlights the practical outworking of righteousness in relationships or community, including acts of mercy or charity.

While tsaddiq refers to a righteous person, tsedaqah can denote the quality or act of righteousness.

Greek: Translated as δικαιοσύνη (dikaiosynē) for righteousness or ἐλεημοσύνη (eleēmosynē) for acts of charity/mercy, depending on context.

Observations

Isaiah 61:10-11 I will rejoice greatly in Yahweh; my being shall shout in exultation in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns himself with a head wrap like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewelry. For as the earth produces its sprout, and as a garden makes its plants sprout, so the Lord Yahweh will make righteousness sprout, and praise before all the nations.

Jeremiah 23:5 “Look, days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will raise up for David a righteous branch, and he will reign as king, and he will achieve success, and he will do justice and righteousness in the land.

Ezekiel 3:20 And when the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, and I place a stumbling block before him, he will die, for you did not warn him. Because of his sin he will die, and his righteousness //Tsedagah// that he did will not be remembered, and his blood I shall seek from your hand.

Scriptures

Old Testament

Genesis

Genesis 15:6 And he believed in Yahweh, and he reckoned it to him as righteousness.

Ge 18:19 For I have chosen him, that he will command his children and his household after him that they will keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice, so that Yahweh may bring upon Abraham that which he said to him.”

Genesis 30:33 And my righteousness will answer for me later when you come concerning my wages before you. Every one that is not speckled or spotted among the goats, or dark-colored among the sheep shall be stolen if it is with me.”

belief is counted as righteousness
“doing righteousness and justice”

Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 6:25 And it shall be righteousness for us if we diligently observe and do all of this commandment before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.’

Deuteronomy 9:4 “You shall not say to yourself when Yahweh your God is driving them out before you, saying, ‘Because of my righteousness Yahweh brought me to take possession of this land’; but because of the wickedness of these nations Yahweh is driving them out before you.

Deuteronomy 9:5 It is not because of your righteousness and because of the uprightness of your heart that you are coming to take possession of their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God is driving them before you, and in order to confirm the promise that Yahweh swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Deuteronomy 9:6 “So you should understand that it is not because of your righteousness that Yahweh your God is giving you this good land to take possession of it, because you are a stubborn people.

Deuteronomy 24:13 You shall certainly return the pledge to him as the sun sets, so that he may sleep in his cloak and may bless you, and it shall be considered righteousness on your behalf before Yahweh your God.

Deuteronomy 33:21 And he selected the best part for himself, for there the portion of a ruler is included, and he came with the heads of the people; he did the righteousness of Yahweh, and his regulations for Israel.”

giving the poor back his pledge is to be righteousness for you

Judges

Judges 5:11 At the sound of those dividing the sheep among the watering places, there they will recount the righteous deeds of Yahweh, the righteous deeds for his warriors in Israel. Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates.

Samuel

1 Samuel 26:23 Yahweh repays to each one his righteousness and his faithfulness, for Yahweh gave you into my hand today, but I was not willing to stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed.

2 Samuel 8:15 David reigned over all of Israel, and he was administering justice and righteousness for all his people.

2 Samuel 19:28 For there was no one in all the house of my father who were not doomed to death before my lord the king, but you set your servant among those who eat at your table. Do I have any righteousness any longer except to cry out to the king?”

2 Samuel 22:21 Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.

2 Samuel 22:25 Yahweh has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness before his eyes.

Kings

1 Kings 3:6 Then Solomon said, “You have shown great loyal love with your servant David my father, as he walked before you in faithfulness and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with you. You have shown for him this great loyal love, and you have given a son to him who is sitting on his throne as it is this day.

1 Kings 8:32 then you shall hear in heaven and you shall act and you shall judge your servant, to declare the wicked guilty by bringing his way upon his head and to declare the righteous innocent by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

1 Kings 10:9 May Yahweh your God be blessed, who has delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel, because of the love of Yahweh for Israel forever, and he has made you king to execute justice and righteousness.”

Chronicles

1 Chronicles 18:14 So David reigned over all Israel, and he administered justice and righteousness to all his people.

2 Chronicles 6:23 then may you yourself hear from the heavens and act and judge your servants, to repay the guilty by bringing his way upon his head and to vindicate the righteous by giving to him according to his righteousness.

2 Chronicles 9:8 Blessed be Yahweh your God who took delight in you, to put you on his throne as king for Yahweh your God! Because your God loved Israel, he established him forever and has put you over them as king to do justice and righteousness!”

Job

Job 27:6 I hold fast to my righteousness, and I will not let it go; my heart will not blame any of my days.

Job 33:26 He prays to God, then he accepts him, and he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he repays to the human being his righteousness.

Job 35:8 Your wickedness affects a person like yourself, and your righteousness affects humans.

Job 37:23 As for Shaddai, we cannot attain him; he is exalted in power, and he does not oppress justice and abundant righteousness.

Job held fast to his righteousness

Psalm

Psalm 5:8 O Yahweh, lead me in your righteousness because of my enemies; make straight before me your way.

Psalm 11:7 For Yahweh is righteous; he loves righteous deeds. The upright shall see his face.

Psalm 31:1 In you, O Yahweh, I have taken refuge. Let me not be put to shame ever. Deliver me by your righteousness.

Psalm 33:5 He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loyal love of Yahweh.

Psalm 36:6 Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your judgments like the great deep. You save man and beast, O Yahweh.

Psalm 36:10 Prolong your loyal love to those who know you, and your righteousness to the upright of heart.

Psalm 40:10 Your righteousness I have not hidden in the midst of my heart. I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loyal love or your faithfulness from the great congregation.

Psalm 51:14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation; then my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.

Psalm 71:2 In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me and save me.

Psalm 71:15 My mouth will tell of your righteousness, your salvation all day long, though I do not know the full sum of them.

Psalm 71:16 I will come in to tell the mighty deeds of Lord Yahweh. I will make known your righteousness, yours only.

Psalm 71:19 And your righteousness, O God, is to the height of heaven. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you?

Psalm 71:24 My tongue also will speak of your righteousness all the day, because they have been put to shame, because they have been humiliated who seek my harm.

Psalm 72:1 O God, give your judgments to the king, and your righteousness to the king’s son.

Psalm 72:3 Let the mountains yield prosperity for the people, and the hills in righteousness.

Psalm 88:12 Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

Psalm 89:16 In your name they rejoice all the day, and in your righteousness they rise up.

Psalm 98:2 Yahweh has made known his salvation; to the eyes of the nations he has revealed his righteousness.

Psalm 99:4 And the strength of the king loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Psalm 103:17 But the loyal love of Yahweh is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to their children’s children,

Psalm 106:3 Blessed are those who observe justice, he who does righteousness at all times.

Psalm 106:31 and it was reckoned to him as righteousness throughout all generations.

Psalm 111:3 Full of splendor and majesty is his work, and his righteousness endures forever.

Psalm 112:3 Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.

Psalm 112:9 He gives lavishly to the needy; his righteousness endures forever. His horn rises high in honor.

Psalm 119:40 Look, I have longed for your precepts; revive me in your righteousness.

Psalm 119:142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and your law is truth.

Psalm 143:1 O Yahweh, hear my prayer; listen to my supplications. In your faithfulness answer me, and in your righteousness.

Psalm 143:11 For your name’s sake, O Yahweh, preserve my life; in your righteousness bring me out of trouble.

Psalm 145:7 They will utter the renown of your abundant goodness, and they will proclaim with joy your righteousness.

Proverbs

Proverbs 8:18 Fortune and glory are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness.

Proverbs 8:20 In the way of righteousness I walk, in the midst of paths of justice,

Proverbs 10:2 Treasures of wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 11:4 Wealth does not profit on the day of wrath, but righteousness will deliver from death.

Proverbs 11:5 The righteousness of the blameless will keep his ways straight, but the wicked will fall by his wickedness.

Proverbs 11:6 The righteousness of the upright will save them, but by a scheme the treacherous will be taken captive.

Proverbs 11:18 The wicked earns deceptive gain, but he who sows righteousness, a true reward.

Proverbs 11:19 He who is steadfast in righteousness is to life as he who pursues evil is to death.

Proverbs 12:28 On the road of righteousness is life, and on the way of the path, may there be no death.

Proverbs 13:6 Righteousness will guard the upright of way, but wickedness will overthrow sin.

Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness will exalt a nation, but sin is a reproach to a people.

Proverbs 15:9 An abomination of Yahweh is the way of the wicked, but he who pursues righteousness he will love.

Proverbs 16:8 Better is little with righteousness than great income with no justice.

Proverbs 16:12 An abomination to kings is doing evil, for by righteousness the throne will be established.

Proverbs 16:31 A crown of glory is gray hair; by a righteous life it is gained.

Proverbs 21:3 Doing righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

Proverbs 21:21 He who pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor.

Isaiah

Isaiah 1:27 Zion will be redeemed by justice, and those of her who repent, by righteousness.

Isaiah 5:7 For the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts is the house of Israel, and the man of Judah is the plantation of his delight. And he waited for justice, but look! Bloodshed! For righteousness, but look! A cry of distress!

Isaiah 5:16 But Yahweh of hosts is exalted by justice, and the holy God shows himself holy by righteousness.

Isaiah 9:7 His dominion will grow continually, and to peace there will be no end on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and sustain it with justice and righteousness now and forever. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will do this.

Isaiah 10:22 For though your people Israel was like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of it will return. Annihilation is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

Isaiah 28:17 And I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will flood over the hiding place.

Isaiah 32:16 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness will live in the fruitful field.

Isaiah 33:5 Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high; he filled Zion with justice and righteousness,

Isaiah 33:15 He who walks in righteousness and speaks uprightness, who rejects the gain of extortion, who refuses a bribe, who stops up his ears from hearing bloodshed and shuts his eyes from seeing evil.

Isaiah 45:8 Trickle, O heavens, from above, and let clouds trickle with righteousness; let the earth open so that salvation may be fruitful, and let it cause righteousness to sprout along with it. I myself, Yahweh, have created it.

Isaiah 45:23 I have sworn by myself; a word that shall not return has gone forth from my mouth in righteousness: ‘Every knee shall kneel down to me; every tongue shall swear.’

Isaiah 45:24 ‘Only in Yahweh,’ one shall say to me, ‘are righteousness and strength.’ He shall come to him, and all those who were angry with him shall be ashamed.

Isaiah 46:12 Listen to me, strong of heart, far from righteousness!

Isaiah 46:13 I bring my righteousness near; it is not far. And my salvation will not delay; and I will put salvation in Zion, for Israel my glory.”

Isaiah 48:1 Hear this, house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel and came out from the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of Yahweh, and invoke the God of Israel, but not in truth and not in righteousness.

Isaiah 48:18 O that you had listened attentively to my commandments! Then your prosperity would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Isaiah 51:6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens and look to the earth beneath, for the heavens will be torn to pieces like smoke, and the earth will be worn out like a garment, and those who inhabit her will die like gnats. But my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be broken to pieces.

Isaiah 51:8 For a moth will eat them like garments; a moth will devour them like wool, but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation for generation after generation.”

Isaiah 54:14 In righteousness you shall be established. Be far from oppression, for you shall not fear, and from terror, for it shall not come near you.

Isaiah 56:1 Thus says Yahweh: “Observe justice and do righteousness, for my salvation is close to coming, and my justice to being revealed.

Isaiah 57:12 I myself will declare your righteousness and your works, but they will not benefit you.

Isaiah 58:2 Yet they seek me day by day, and they desire the knowledge of my ways like a nation that practiced righteousness, and had not forsaken the judgment of its God; they ask me for righteous judgments, they desire the closeness of God.

Isaiah 59:9 Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We wait for light, but look! there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

Isaiah 59:14 And justice is pushed back, and righteousness stands afar; for truth stumbles in the public square, and straightforwardness is unable to enter,

Isaiah 59:16 And he saw that there was no man, and he was appalled that there was no one who intercedes, so his arm came to assist him, and his righteousness was what sustained him.

Isaiah 59:17 And he put on righteousness like a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head, and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and he wrapped himself in zeal as in a robe.

Isaiah 60:17 Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver, and instead of wood, bronze, and instead of stones, iron. And I will appoint peace as your overseer, and righteousness as your ruling body.

Isaiah 61:10 I will rejoice greatly in Yahweh; my being shall shout in exultation in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns himself with a head wrap like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewelry.

Isaiah 61:11 For as the earth produces its sprout, and as a garden makes its plants sprout, so the Lord Yahweh will make righteousness sprout, and praise before all the nations.

Jeremiah

Jeremiah 4:2 and you swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations will be blessed by him, and in him they will boast.”

Jeremiah 9:24 But only in this must the one who boasts boast, that he has insight, and that he knows me, that I am Yahweh, showing loyal love, justice, and righteousness on the earth, for in these things I delight,” declares Yahweh.

Jeremiah 22:3 Thus says Yahweh, “Act with justice and righteousness, and deliver the one who has been seized from the hand of the oppressor. And you must not oppress or treat violently the immigrant, the orphan, and the widow. And you must not shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 22:15 Do you reign as king because you are competing in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and he did justice and righteousness, then it was well with him?

Jeremiah 23:5 “Look, days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will raise up for David a righteous branch, and he will reign as king, and he will achieve success, and he will do justice and righteousness in the land.

Jeremiah 33:15 In those days and in that time I will make a branch of righteousness sprout for David, and he will execute justice and righteousness in the land.

Ezekiel

Ezekiel 3:20 And when the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, and I place a stumbling block before him, he will die, for you did not warn him. Because of his sin he will die, and his righteousness //Tsedagah// that he did will not be remembered, and his blood I shall seek from your hand.

Ezekiel 14:14 And if even the three of these men were in the midst of it— Noah, Daniel, and Job— they, through their righteousness, would save only themselves!” declares the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 14:20 and if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in the midst of her, as surely as I live,” declares the Lord Yahweh, “surely not a son, surely not a daughter will they save by their righteousness; they would save themselves.”

Ezekiel 18:5 And if a man is righteous and does justice and righteousness,

Ezekiel 18:19 “Yet you say, ‘Why does the son not bear the guilt of the father?’ And since the son does justice and righteousness and he keeps all of my statutes and does them, he shall surely live!

Ezekiel 18:20 The person, the one sinning, will die. A son shall not bear the guilt of the father, and a father shall not bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him; the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

Ezekiel 18:21 But if the wicked returns from all of his sins that he has done and he keeps all of my statutes and he does justice and righteousness, he shall surely live; he shall not die!

Ezekiel 18:22 All of his transgressions that he committed will not be remembered against him. Through his righteousness that he has done he shall live.

Ezekiel 18:24 And when the righteous turns from his righteousness, so that he does injustice, and does all of the detestable things that the wicked do, then will he live because of all of his righteousness that he did? Those things will not be remembered because of his infidelity that he displayed, and because of his sin that he committed. Through them he shall die.

Ezekiel 18:26 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and he does injustice, then he will die because of them; because of his injustice that he did he will die!

Ezekiel 18:27 And when the wicked turns from his wickedness that he did and he does justice and righteousness, he will preserve his life.

Ezekiel 33:12 “So you, son of man, say to your people that the righteousness of the righteous shall not save him in the day of his transgression, and the wickedness of the wicked will not cause him to stumble on the day of his returning from his wickedness; and the righteous will not be able to live by it on the day when he returns to his sin.

Ezekiel 33:13 When I say to the righteous, ‘Certainly he will live,’ and he trusted in his righteousness, and he turns and he does injustice, all of his righteousness will not be remembered, and because of his injustice that he did, because of it he will die.

Ezekiel 33:13 When I say to the righteous, ‘Certainly he will live,’ and he trusted in his righteousness, and he turns and he does injustice, all of his righteousness will not be remembered, and because of his injustice that he did, because of it he will die.

Ezekiel 33:14 And when I say to the wicked, ‘Certainly you will die,’ but he returns from his sin and he does justice and righteousness—

Ezekiel 33:16 All of his sins that he committed, they will not be remembered against him, and he did justice and righteousness; certainly he will live.

Ezekiel 33:18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, then he will die because of it.

Ezekiel 33:19 And when the wicked turns from his wickedness, and he does justice and righteousness, because of it he will certainly live!

Ezekiel 45:9 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Enough of this for you, the princes of Israel; put away violence and destruction and do justice and righteousness; revoke your acts of dispossession from upon my people!” declares the Lord Yahweh.

Daniel

Daniel 9:16 Lord, according to all your righteousness, please let your anger and your rage turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain, because through our sins and through the iniquities of our ancestors Jerusalem and your people have become an object of mockery among all of our neighbors.

Daniel 9:18 Incline your ear, my God, and listen; open your eyes and look at our desolation and the city that is called by your name, for we are not presenting our pleas for mercy before you because of our righteousness, but rather because of your great compassion.

Hosea

Hosea 10:12 Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap loyal love. Break up for yourself fallow ground; it is time to seek Yahweh so he will come and rain righteousness upon you.

Joel

Joel 2:23 Be glad, O children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in Yahweh your God, because he has given for you the autumn rains for your righteousness, and he has poured down for you rainwater, the autumn and spring rains, as before.

Amos

Amos 5:7 Ah, you who turn justice into wormwood and hurl righteousness to the ground!

Amos 5:24 But let justice roll on like the water, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Amos 6:12 Do horses run on rocks, or does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood!

Micah

Micah 6:5 O my people, remember what Balak the king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you might know the righteous acts of Yahweh.”

Mic 7:9 I will bear the rage of Yahweh, for I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes my justice. He will bring me out to the light; I will see his righteousness.

Zechariah

Zechariah 8:8 and I will bring them and they will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. They will be my people and I will be their God in faithfulness and in righteousness.’

Malachi

Malachi 3:3 He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the children of Levi, and he will refine them like gold and like silver, and they will present to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.

Malachi 4:2 But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise, with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like fattened calves.