KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: Right, just, equitable, or in accord with truth, justice, or the will of God. Sense 2: Upright or innocent in a matter. Sense 3: Made or regarded as right. Sense 4: As a noun, persons so described.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 7:1
Complete exact-word concordance
¶ And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the Lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
¶ And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said vnto them, I haue sinned this time: the LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
Keepe thee farre from a false matter: and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not iustifie the wicked.
¶ And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
¶ And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and peruerteth the words of the righteous.
1611 marginal noteHebr. the seeing.
1611 marginal noteDeut. 16.19. ecclus. 20.28.
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Source order
1 · Direct Scripture definition
The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
2 · KJV context and cross-references
Historical English dictionary sources
Just; accordant to the divine law. Applied to things, it denotes consonant to the divine will or to justice. The righteous, in Scripture, denote the servants of God, the saints. Just; equitable; merited.
