KJV dictionary & concordance
The state or character of being righteous; justice, uprightness, or conformity to what is right.
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Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 15:6
Complete exact-word concordance
¶ How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
¶ Howe is the faithfull citie become an harlot? it was full of iudgement, righteousnesse lodged in it; but now murtherers.
And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellers as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
And I will restore thy iudges as at the first, and thy counsellers as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called the citie of righteousnesse, the faithfull citie.
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
Zion shall be redeemed with iudgement, and her conuerts with righteousnesse.
1611 marginal noteOr, they that returne of her.
For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
For the Uineyard of the LORD of hostes is the house of Israel, and the men of Iudah his pleasant plant: and he looked for iudgement, but beholde oppression; for righteousnesse, but behold a crie.
1611 marginal noteHeb. plant of his pleasures.
1611 marginal noteHeb.a scab.
But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
But the LORD of hosts shalbe exalted in iudgement, and God that is holy, shall bee sanctified in righteousnesse.
1611 marginal noteOr, the holy God. Heb. The God the holy.
Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
Which iustifie the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousnes of the righteous from him.
1611 marginal noteProu. 17.15.
For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall returne: the consumption decreed shall ouerflow with righteousnesse.
1611 marginal noteHeb. in or amongst.
1611 marginal noteOr, in.
1611 marginal noteCha 28.22 rom.9.27.
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
But with righteousnesse shall he iudge the poore, and reprooue with equitie, for the meeke of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rodde of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
1611 marginal noteOr, argue.
1611 marginal noteIohn 4.9. 2.thes.2.8.
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
And righteousnesse shalbe the girdle of his loines, and faithfulnesse the girdle of his reines.
And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
And in mercy shall the throne be established, and hee shal sit vpon it in trueth, in the tabernacle of Dauid, iudging and seeking iudgement, and hasting righteousnesse.
1611 marginal noteOr, prepared.
1611 marginal noteDan. 7.14, 27. mic. 4.7. luke 1.33.
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