the right ({natural} moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity

1. justice, rightness, righteousness

a. what is right or just or normal, rightness, justness (of weights and measures)

b. righteousness (in government)

1. of judges, rulers, kings

2. of law

3. of Davidic king, Messiah

4. of Jerusalem as seat of just government

5. of God's attribute

c. righteousness, justice (in case or cause)

d. rightness (in speech)

e. righteousness (as ethically right)

f. righteousness (as vindicated), justification (in controversy), deliverance, victory, prosperity

1. of God as covenant-keeping in redemption

2. in name of Messianic king

3. of people enjoying salvation

4. of Cyrus