Proto-Semitic root
*ṣdḳ
‘to be just, true’
di Mino’s gloss: to be just, righteous, in the right; to speak the truth
Record 2614 ↗ · SED semet 3149 · Basis: SED
In Linear A1 entry
Notes
The noun *ṣidq- ‘righteousness, justice’ is 2762.
Reflexes17 languages
Northwest Semitic9
- Phoenicianṣdq, yiphʿil (Neo-Punic hṣdyqʾ, KAI 154.1)ṣdq (adj.) (Krahmalkov 414)gloss withheld
- Hebrewṣdq, ṣaddīq, ṣədāqā (HALOT 1001, 1003, 1006)gloss withheld
- Amoriteyaṣduqum, ṣaduq (HALOT 1003)ṣaduqu (Buck 2019, 333)ṣ-d-q: ia-áš-du-qa-an, ia-aš-du-kum, ia-aš/áš-du-uq-DINGIRṣadaq: za-da-ga (Ur III)ṣaduq: za-du-kum, ṣa-du-qa-nu-um, a-bi-ṣa-du-uq (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 214–215)gloss withheld
- Canaaniteṣaduq (HALOT 1003)
- Syrian Aramaiczādeq, zaddīqā, zedqā, zedqətā (HALOT 1001, 1003, 1004, 1006; Payne Smith 110)
- Judaic Aramaicṣidqā, ṣidqətā (HALOT 1004, 1006)
- Aramaicṣdq, ṣdyq, zdqt[ʾ], zdqʾ, ṣdqh, ṣdqtʾ (HALOT 1001, 1004, 1006; DNWSI 963)
- Mandaic Aramaiczadiq(a), ṣadiq(a), zidqa (HALOT 1001, 1004; MD 157, 165)
- Biblical Aramaicṣidqā (HALOT 1006)
Arabic2
- Arabicṣadaqa (BK 1, 1322; HALOT 1003)ṣadīq (HALOT 1002)gloss withheld
- Pre-Islamic North ArabianSafaitic ṣdq (Al-Jallad 2026, 146)gloss withheld
Epigraphic South Arabian1
- Epigraphic South ArabianSab. ṣdq (Sabaweb lemma 1220)gloss withheld
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian5
- Geezṣādəq (OLA80 §42.13)ṣadqa (LGz. 548)gloss withheld
- Tigreṣadqa, ṣaddaqa (HALOT 1003)
- Mehriṣādəq, ṣadiq (LGz. 548)gloss withheld
- Tigrinyaṣädäqä (LGz. 548)
- Amharicṣäddäqä (LGz. 548)
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.