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Is ‘Righteous’ Right?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

G. A. F. Knight
G. A. F. Knight
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22 Gladstone Road Gardens Dunedin New Zealand
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The root ts-d-q found in the Old Testament has always presented its interpreters with a challenge. It is the root from which modern versions usually offer us the word ‘righteous’. Actually two problems arise over it, for from this root we have both a verb and a noun. So we must discover in the case of the noun, what the feminine form tsedaqah actually means and how it differs from its masculine counterpart, tsedeq, if at all; and, in the case of the verb, what tsedeq means in the Qal as well as in the Hiphil, as hitsdiq.

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Research Article
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Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , February 1988 , pp. 1 - 10
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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1986

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