Day 40 of 75 · The Beatitude roots

D-K-Y

dakhya: pure

דכא

ܕܟܐ

The feel

D-K-Y means clean or pure, free from stain. Dakhya is the adjective, pure. The Gospels use the root for skin healed of leprosy, for the inside of a cup, and for the heart.

The root family

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
Abstract noun	-uta ending	dakhyuta	—	purity	purity (not found in the Gospels)

In the Gospels the verb appears in the Peal, dka, to be clean (its participle dke, "clean," John 15:3; Luke 11:41), in the Pael, dakki, to make clean (Matthew 23:26), and in the Ethpaal, etdakki, to be made clean (Matthew 8:3).

In his voice

Matthew 5:8

Fortunate are those being pure in heart, for they will see God.

dadkheyn, "who are clean." The participle describes a present state. The pure in heart are clean now, and they are promised that they will see God.

Matthew 8:3

Yeshua reached out his hand and touched him. "I am willing," he said. "Be clean." And at once his leprosy was cleansed.

etdaka, "Be clean." This is the passive stem, so the man receives the cleansing. Yeshua speaks the word, and at once he is made clean.

Practice

Wash your hands slowly today. As you do, name one thing on your heart that is not clean, such as a resentment or a corner you cut, and then say dakhya, pure, aloud.

Connections

Z-K-Y L-B-B dke

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").

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