tsa.daq describes being shown to be in the right or declaring another person to be in the right, often in judgment or dispute.

The occurrences chiefly describe a person’s standing as right, justified, or vindicated in a dispute or before God; related uses describe a judge or other party declaring someone else right, whether rightly or wrongly. The same contrast with condemning the wicked or righteous recurs in judicial settings.

1. Being shown or found to be in the right · dominant

   Qal forms occur where a person’s right standing is questioned, claimed, or affirmed. In Job 9:2 the APB renders the question of how a human may be “justified with God,” while Job 13:18 presents a prepared case and the expectation of being justified; Genesis 38:26 compares one person as more righteous than another.

   Job 9:2Job 13:18Job 25:4Psalm 143:2Genesis 38:26Isaiah 43:26
2. Declaring or treating someone as right · common

   Hiphil and Piel forms place the action upon another person in judicial or accusatory contexts. Deuteronomy 25:1 sets justifying the righteous beside condemning the wicked, while Isaiah 5:23 condemns those who acquit the guilty; Isaiah 53:11 speaks of making many to be accounted righteous.

   Deuteronomy 25:1Exodus 23:7Isaiah 5:23Isaiah 53:11Proverbs 17:15Ezekiel 16:51

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term with “justify,” “justified,” or “righteous,” and in judicial clauses also uses “acquit” and “vindicating.” Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these renderings confirm the clauses’ overall judicial and disputational setting rather than fixing a separate English equivalent in every verse.