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Word Study "righteous"

"Righteous"

Word study and frequency analysis

All Translations
8,559
total occurrences
KJV
535
in this translation
Old Testament
392
73.3% of KJV
New Testament
143
26.7% of KJV

Testament Distribution

OT 73%
NT 27%
Old Testament: 392 New Testament: 143

Frequency by Book

Gen
10
Exo
4
Lev
2
Num
1
Deu
11
Jdg
1
1Sa
3
2Sa
3
1Ki
3
2Ki
1
2Ch
2
Ezr
1
Neh
1
Job
22
Psa
132
Pro
75
Ecc
7
Isa
62
Jer
12
Lam
1
Eze
16
Dan
7
Hos
2
Amo
4
Mic
2
Hab
2
Zep
1
Zec
1
Mal
3
Mat
15
Mar
1
Luk
7
Joh
5
Act
4
Rom
41
1Co
3
2Co
7
Gal
4
Eph
3
Phi
3
2Th
4
1Ti
2
2Ti
3
Tit
2
Heb
10
Jam
4
1Pe
5
2Pe
7
1Jo
7
Rev
6

Key Verses Containing "righteous"

And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

Genesis 18:23 Read in context →

And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

Genesis 18:24 Read in context →

Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

Genesis 18:25 Read in context →

That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Genesis 18:26 Read in context →

And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

Genesis 18:28 Read in context →

Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.

But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?

Genesis 30:33 Read in context →

So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.

Genesis 38:26 Read in context →

And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.

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Related Strong's Numbers

H6663 Hebrew
צָדַק
tsadaq
[tsaw-dak']

To be (causatively make) right (in a moral or forensic sense). To be righteous, justified.

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