Kina names what stands straight: a plumb wall, a true scale, a life that does not bend. Kinuta is upright and just conduct, the state of things set right. You can hunger for it as you hunger for bread.
| Form | Pattern | Transliteration | Script | Standard | Qala rendering |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adjective | long-vowel kīn- stem | kina (pl. kine) | כאנא ܟ݁ܺܐܢܳܐ | righteous, just | one who does what is right; righteous |
| Abstract noun | -uta ending | kinuta | כאנותא ܟܐܢܘܬܐ | righteousness | what is right, justice |
| Adverb | -aʾit ending | kinaʾit | — | justly | rightly (lexicon form, not in this corpus) |
| Stem | Force | This root | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peal | simple | kaen | to be firm, right (lexicon; not in this corpus) |
| Ethpeel | simple passive | not attested | — |
| Pael | intensive | not attested | — |
| Ethpaal | intensive passive | not attested | — |
| Aphel | causative | not attested | — |
| Ettaphal | causative passive | not attested | — |
| Shaphel | rare causative | not attested | — |
Choose one decision from today. Hold it to a plumb line: did it stand straight, or lean toward comfort, attention, or revenge? Notice where your hunger for justice lives in your body.
Say kina, then kinuta. Speak of hungering and thirsting for what is right.
The Hebrew cognate is ken (כֵּן): "right, honest," as when Joseph's brothers protest in Genesis 42:11, "we are honest men" ( kenim ); it survives in everyday Hebrew ken , "yes, so it is." Within the 75, this root walks beside Q-Sh-Ṭ (straightness, truth, day 48), where kinuta is straightness of conduct and qushta straightness of speech, and beside D-K-Y (purity, tomorrow's root), its inward twin in the Beatitudes.