Bible word study

Tsedaqah (Strong’s H6666): Meaning in the Bible

Tsedaqah (צְדָקָה) is the Hebrew word numbered H6666 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity). In the King James Bible it is translated justice, moderately, right(-eous) (act, -ly, -ness)..

• Original wordצְדָקָה
• Transliterationtsᵉdâqâh
• Pronunciationtsed-aw-kaw'
• Part of speechnoun (feminine) (n-f)
• Strong’s numberH6666
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H6663;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Tsedaqah appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Tsedaqah (H6666) stands behind 157 English renderings in 150 verses across 22 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Isaiah (36), Psalms (34), Ezekiel (20).

How the King James Bible renders Tsedaqah, by count

• righteousness124 of 157 (79 percent)
• justice15 of 157 (10 percent)
• right9 of 157 (6 percent)
• acts3 of 157 (2 percent)
• righteousnesses3 of 157 (2 percent)
• moderately1 of 157 (1 percent)

Three places to read Tsedaqah

• Genesis 15:6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
• Psalms 103:17 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;
• Isaiah 56:1 Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Tsedaqah in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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