צַדְקָנִית, (preced.) pious, virtuous, charitable.—Pl. צַדְקָנִיּוֹת. Y. Snh. X, end, 29ᵈ; Bab. Snh. 112ᵃ; Arakh. 7ᵇ שער נשים צ׳ the hair of pious women (in a condemned city, v. נָדַח). Ex. R. s. 1 בשכר נשים צ׳ וכ׳ through the merit of the pious women of the age were the Israelites redeemed from Egypt; a. fr.