צַדִּיק

תָּם tâm · H8535 · joined, perfect

The target lexeme and תָּם both denote moral or ethical integrity, able to substitute for one another in describing a righteous or blameless person (as in the book of Job, which uses both extensively). תָּם also carries the additional senses ‘coupled together’ and ‘plain,’ but its core sense of ‘perfect, undefiled, upright’ overlaps substantially with the target lexeme’s ‘just, righteous.’

חַף chaph · H2643 · pure, clean

These are true same-language near-synonyms describing overlapping moral-legal states.

רָשָׁע râshâʻ · H7563 · wicked, evil, guilty, in the wrong

צַדִּיק (tsaddîyq, H6662) צַדִּיק denotes the person who is "just, lawful, righteous," characterized by conformity to divine or moral standards, while רָשָׁע (râshâʻ, H7563) רָשָׁע describes the "condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked" person who violates those standards. These terms form a canonical antonymous pair in Hebrew moral and legal vocabulary, representing opposite poles of ethical conduct and divine judgment—the righteous versus the wicked.

רָשַׁע râshaʻ · H7561 · to be guilty, to declare guilty, to condemn as guilty

The direct lexical opposite of רָשַׁע, denoting the righteous person or one who is just and lawful, frequently contrasted with the wicked throughout wisdom and legal texts.

δίκαιος díkaios · G1342 · righteous, just, being in a right relation with

Greek δίκαιος (‘equitable, righteous; by implication innocent, holy’) is the direct translation equivalent of Hebrew צַדִּיק across the Septuagint, both denoting righteousness or justice in character and conduct.

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This domain's connection to צַדִּיק is not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which show the word's sense of a righteous character rather than a legal declaration of innocence.

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This domain's connection to צַדִּיק is not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which show the word's sense of a righteous character rather than the administration of justice.

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צַדִּיק means righteous or just, as of Noah, righteous and blameless in his generation in Genesis 6:9, the one man the LORD sees to be righteous in Genesis 7:1, and the righteous Abraham pleads for in Sodom in Genesis 18:23 and 18:24.

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.