H6666

• {"n":"tsedaqah","s":"Righteousness, and just as often justice. English splits them.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=tsedaqah","r":"Genesis 15:6","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Versions read righteousness in narrative and justice in the Prophets, from one word."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**That was not right.** **That was not just.** Two complaints in English, one in Hebrew."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Tsedaqah is rightness inside relationship, including obligations to people with no legal claim on you. In the Prophets it is regularly paired with mishpat and concerns the treatment of the poor."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English divided the word along a line Hebrew never drew, and the two halves now sound like different subjects."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"Read a passage substituting the other English word. It is the quickest way to hear what the division costs."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Righteousness is the majority rendering in the Torah and justice in the Prophets."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u05e6\u05b0\u05d3\u05b8\u05e7\u05b8\u05d4 tsedaqah \u00b7 H6666"}],"src":["tsedaqah with mishpat: Amos 5:24; Isaiah 1:27","Genesis 15:6; Deuteronomy 24:13","Septuagint dikaiosune for tsedaqah"]}