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tzadik

tzadik is the alternative spelling of tzaddik.

tzadik is the alternative form of tsade.

Meaning of tzaddik

Noun

tzaddik (plural tzaddiks or tzaddikim)

  1. (Judaism) A very righteous person, especially a Hassidic spiritual leader.
    • For in dreams one thinks with the eyes and the ears; speech has no nouns, just verbs; only in dreams is every person a zaddik, never a murderer….1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 226

Meaning of tsade

Noun

tsade (plural tsades)

  1. The eighteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

Forms of tzadik

pluraltzadiks
pluraltzadikim

Questions about tzadik

What is tzadik the alternative spelling of?
Tzadik is the alternative spelling of tzaddik.

Words near tzadik in the dictionary

  1. tzaddiq
  2. tzaddiqim
  3. tzaddiqs
  4. Tzaddy
  5. tzadi
  6. tzadik
  7. tzadikim
  8. tzadiks
  9. tzadis
  10. tzadziki
  11. Tzakonian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tzadik (page history and authors); tzaddik (page history and authors); tsade (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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