צֶדֶק

יֹשֶׁר yôsher · H3476 · uprightness, honesty, sincereness

Both words denote core concepts of moral rightness in Hebrew: יֹשֶׁר means equity, uprightness and what is right, and צֶדֶק means justice, righteousness and what is just; they are frequently interchangeable in contexts of moral evaluation and judicial integrity.

δικαιοσύνη dikaiosýnē · G1343 · righteousness, doing what God requires, doing what is right

Greek δικαιοσύνη (righteousness, justice, justification) serves as the standard Septuagint rendering of Hebrew צֶדֶק (righteousness, justice), both denoting the quality of being right/just in conduct, judgment, or character, with δικαιοσύνη (dikaiosýnē, G1343) carrying forward the Hebrew term's ethical and forensic range into Koine Greek.

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

Greek δίκαιος (díkaios, G1342) serves as the standard Septuagint rendering of Hebrew צֶדֶק (tsedeq, H6664), both denoting rightness/justice as a quality or state, with δίκαιος characteristically functioning as an adjective ('righteous, just') while צֶדֶק functions as a noun ('righteousness, justice'), though both participate in the shared semantic domain of forensic and moral uprightness.

δικαίως dikaíōs · G1346 · right, just

δικαίως (dikaíōs, G1346) is the adverbial form corresponding to the nominal צֶדֶק (tsedeq, H6664), rendering the abstract Hebrew concept of justice/righteousness into Greek manner-of-action expressions ('justly,' 'equitably')—a morphological category shift (noun → adverb) that preserves core semantic equivalence across the two languages.

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This domain's connection to צֶדֶק is not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which show the word's sense of righteousness or justice rather than general goodness.

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צֶדֶק denotes righteousness or justice, as of the fair judgment Israel is commanded to render without partiality in Leviticus 19:15, the accurate weights and measures called righteous in Leviticus 19:36, and the righteous judgment the judges of every town must render in Deuteronomy 1:16 and 16:18.

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.