Hin
הִיןStrong’s H1969hin
Appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Hin is the Hebrew word usually translated “hin” and “hin of”. It appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament.
“And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering.”
Meaning
- Hina unit of measure, about 5 quarts (6 l) · a vessel holding a hin of liquid
How it's translated
- hin 16
- a hin 5
- and a hin of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 9
- Ezekiel 6
- Exodus 2
- Leviticus 2
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 30:24And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:
- Leviticus 19:36Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
- Leviticus 23:13And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.
- Numbers 15:4Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil.
- Numbers 15:5And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb.
- Numbers 15:6Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil.
Hebrew dictionary
הִין hin · hin
1) hin 1a) a unit of measure, about 5 quarts (6 l) 1b) a vessel holding a hin of liquid
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hin” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HIN, noun
[Heb.]
A Hebrew measure of capacity containing the sixth part of an ephah, or about five quarts English measure.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.