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
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
Remember, I pray thee, who euer perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answere, but I would make supplication to my Iudge.
If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
If I be wicked, woe vnto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift vp my head: I am full of confusion, therefore see thou mine affliction:
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
What is man, that he should be cleane? and he which is borne of a woman, that he should be righteous?
1611 marginal noteChap. 14.4. 1.king. 8.46. 2.chron. 6.36. psal. 14.3. prou. 20.9. 1.iohn 1.8.
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath cleane hands shalbe stronger, and stronger.
1611 marginal noteHebr. shall adde strgth.
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gaine to him, that thou makest thy waies perfite?
The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
The righteous see it, and are glad, and the innocent laugh them to scorne.
1611 marginal notePsal. 107.42.
There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be deliuered for euer from my Iudge.
SO these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
¶ So these three men ceased to answere Iob, because he was righteous in his owne eyes.
1611 marginal noteHeb. from answering.
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
For Iob hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my iudgement.
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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.
