kīnum

Cognate with Biblical Hebrew כֵּן (ken, “right, honest, truthful”).

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ˈkiː.num/

kīnum (feminine kīttum, masculine plural kīnūtum, feminine plural kīnātum, predicative kīn) (from Old Akkadian on)

1. verbal adjective of kânum:
   1. permanent, firm
   2. true, reliable, just
   3. honest, decent, loyal
   4. correct, regular, normal, legitimate

• kīnu (non-mimated)
• kēnum, kēnu (Assyrian)

• “kīnu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎^[1], Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956–2011
• Black, Jeremy, George, Andrew, Postgate, Nicholas (2000) “kīnu(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, via the electronic Babylonian Library