D K Y is cleanness made visible: a rinsed cup, healed skin, water you can see through. It means pure, free from stain in body, vessel, or heart. You meet its full reach when the same root cleans skin, the inside of a cup, and the heart.
| Form | Pattern | Transliteration | Script | Standard | Qala rendering |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verb, passive participle | peal participle | dke (pl. dkeyn) | דכא ܕ݁ܟ݂ܶܐ | clean | clean, pure, made clean |
| Adjective | qattil-type | dakhya | — | pure | pure (lexicon form of the keyword) |
| Abstract noun | -uta ending | dakhyuta | — | purity | purity (lexicon form, not in this corpus) |
| Stem | Force | This root | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peal | simple | dka | to be clean (participle dke, "clean," John 15:3; Luke 11:41) |
| Ethpeel | simple passive | not attested | — |
| Pael | intensive | dakki | to cleanse, make clean (Matthew 23:26, "First clean the inside") |
| Ethpaal | intensive passive | etdakki | to be made clean (Matthew 8:3, "Be clean") |
| Aphel | causative | not attested | — |
| Ettaphal | causative passive | not attested | — |
| Shaphel | rare causative | not attested | — |
Wash your hands slowly. Hold a glass to the light, notice any spot, then ask what stains your deciding heart now: resentment, appearance, or a corner cut. Name it clearly.
Say dakhya aloud: pure, clean, nothing smeared across the heart.
The Hebrew cognate family is zakh / zakhah (זַךְ, זָכָה), "pure, clear," with the regular sound shift where Aramaic d answers Hebrew z (Aramaic dhav , Hebrew zahav , "gold").