A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature/דכותא - דכר
parents of incomparable virtue often rear children not like them at all; a. fr. -- Cmp. דכמא.
דכותא, דכו f. (דכי) purity, levitical cleanness. Targ. Lev. XII, ; a. e. [Targ. Y. ib. 6 דכיתא.]-- Pl. דכוותא, דכו׳ affairs concernig levitical cleanness. Targ. I Chr. XXIII, 28.
דכי, דכה, Pi. דכ (Aramaism, v. next w.) to declare clean. Nidd. 25a וכ׳ דכ לא the scholars never declared clean &c.
דכי, דכא (=h. זכה) [to be clear (cmp. דכך),] 1) to be clean, pure; to be cleared, acguitted, cleansed from sin. Targ. Lev. XII, 7 ותדכי O. ed. Berl. (ed. ות׳ incorr., Y. ותדכי). Ib. xXVI, 30 תדכון O. (Y. תידכון). Targ. Ezek. XXIV, 13 תדכין (Nun emphat.; ed. Lag. תדכן); a. fr. -- 2) to be deserving, privileged, admitted (cmp. זכי). Targ. O. Deut. XXIII, 2q. -- Targ. Ruth II, 10. Ib. 13 מדכי (sub. למיעל). -- Lev. R. s. 34 [readc] בי דכי או בי זכי, v. זכי. -- Part. דכי, f. דכיא. Targ. Is. LXV, 5 וכ׳ דכינא Iam purer than &c., v. דכי. [Targ. Prov. VI, 11, v. דרך.] Pa. דכי to clear, purify; to restore to levitical cleanness, to cleanse. Targ. Ezek. XXIV, 13. Targ. Lev. XVI, 30; a. fr. --Gen. R. s. 79 וכ׳ יתה מדכן אנן לית should we not restore it (Tiberias) to levitical cleanness from the slain (buried there); Yalk. ib. 133 מדכיין. Gen. R. l.c. [read] לטבריא מדכיה אנו צרוכין we must cleanse Tiberias (Pesik. B'shall. p. 89b למזכייה); Koh. R. to X, 8. -- Ib. דדכייה which he had declared clean. c. Shebi. IX, 38d מדכי טיבריא. -- Nidd. 6b וכ׳ מדכן observe the same levitical cleanness as required for Temple offerings, v. חברא. Pthpa. אתדכי, אידכי 1) to became clean, be cleansed (from sin), be purified. Targ. II Sam. XI, 4. Targ. Lev. XIV, 4 לדמדכי ed. Berl. (Var. למידעי; Y. לדמדכי); ib. 7; a. fr. -- 2) to be cleared away, be removed, be gone. Ber. 2b יומא אדכי the day is past; v. טהר. Af. אדכא to polish; trmnsf. to train. Targ. Prov. XXII, 6 אדכא ed. Lag. (Ms. אדכיח, read אדכיה; some ed. אדרכא; h. text תנך).
דכי m., דכיא c, דכיתא f. (preced.) clear, pure. clean, guiltless. Targ. Ex. XXV, 11. 1b. XXVII, 20. -- Ib. XXXI, 8; a. fr. - Pl. דכיין, דכן; . דכייתא. Targ. Lev. XIV, 4. Targ. O. Gen. XXVII, 15; a. e. - Eduy. VIII, 4 דכן they are clean (permitted), v. איל; ib. דכיין דאינון ed. (Ms. M. דכן) tiat they are clean (not susceptible of levit- ical uncleanness); Pes. 16a; Ned. 19a; Ab. Zar. 37a. --- Yoma 76b דכייתא חיטי fine wheat four.
דכיח, v. דכי Af.
דכיך m. דכיכתא f. v. דכך.
דכין, v. דכון.
דכיר m. (v. דכר)=h. זכור, remembered, reminded, mindful. Targ. Ps. CIII, 14 קדמוי ד׳ it is remembered before Him. -- Targ. Gen.IX, 15 דכירנא Ishall remember; a. fr. -- Taan. 20b דכירנא לא בינקותיה I do not remember his oung days. Hull. 137b. - Pl. דכירין, דכירי. Targ. Y. Deut. V, 15; a. e. -- Snh. 29b. -- rem. דכירא. Targ. Lam. I, 7.
דכירא f. 1) v. preced. - 2)=דכורו. Targ. Y. II Num. XXXIV, 1.
דכך (v. דכא), Pi. דכך to crush. Part. pass. מדוכך, pl. מדובכים. Midr. Till. to Ps. XCIII אנו מד׳ we are crushed, worn out (Gen. R. s. 5 מדוכנין, v. דכן).
דכך ch. same. Part. Peil. דכיך, f. דכיכתא crushed, melancholy. Targ. Prov. XVII, 22 (h. text נכאה). [Ib. VI, 11 ותדכוך some ed., v. דרך.] Pa. דכך to crush. Targ. Job IV, 19. thpa. אתדעך, אדכך to be crushed. Targ. Job XXXIV, 25.
דכמא, דכמה, דיכ׳ f. (compound of די, s a. מא. v. כמא a. די) appearance, resemblance, the like of. Y. M.Kat. III, 81d, v. דכוותי. With suffix of pers. pronoun דכמי, דכמיה, דכמוהי &c. Targ. Job I, 8; II, 3; a. e. - Constr. דכמת, with suffix דכמתי &c. Targ. II Chr. XVIII, 3 ed. Lag. Targ. Job XII, 3; a. fr. -- Targ. Ps. LXXIII, 15 דכמתהון (ed. Lag. דמכמתהון), v. כמתי.
דכן, pl. of דכי.
דכן, Pi. דיכן (cmp. דכך) to pound bulbous plants in the ground in order to stop the growth of the tuber (differ. fr. ריכן, v. רכן). Y. Shebi. V, 35d bot. וכ׳ דיכנ he crushed the tuber in the Sabbatical year and took it out after &c. [Tosef. ib. II, 10 לדכן Var., read with ed. Zuck. לרכן; cmp. Y. ib. 36a top.) - Part. pass. מדוכן, pl. מדוכנין. Ned. 58a במד׳ it treats of onions which had been pounded in the preceding agricultural year; Y. Shebi. VI, end, 37a במורכנין (corr. acc.). - Gen. R. s. 5, v. דכך.
דכן ch. same, to crush. Targ. Prov. XI, 3.
*דכס (cmp. preced. a. Arab. דכס in Vahrmund Arab. Handworterbuch) to crush, weaken. Y'lamd. to Gen. XXIV, 1 quot. in Ar. דכסן חלי (דוכסן חולי) read דכסו or דיכסו disease broke his energies (I Kings XI, 4). Gen. R. s. 5, v. דכסס.
דכסומיני, דכסומני, דוכ׳ . (~~~~~~) reservoir. tank. Pesik. R. s. 4. -- Y'lamd. to Num. XX, 8 quot. in Ar.
דכסוסיא, v. דוכסוסיא.
דכסיא, דכסייא, v. דוכסא.
דכסן, v. דכס.
דכסס, דוכסס, דיכ׳ m. (דכס, cmp. Arab. dakasan) masses stamped upon each other, mounds, piles. Gen. R. s. 5 (play on דכים, Ps. XCIII, 3) ים לד׳ Yalk. Ps. 848 (ed. Gen. R. לדוכסאים, לדיכ׳) unto the piled up waters of the Sea.
דכ״ץ, v. אחס. Sabb. 104a הם צדיקים הם הםיכנים חכים they are humble, sincere, righteous.
דכר I=h. זכר (to mirk,] to remember. Targ. Lam. III, 19 ~. Targ.Ps. LXXXVIII, 6; a. fr. -- Sabb. 12b מנא .ד a