Hin

A unit of liquid measurement in the Bible, roughly equal to 6 liters or 6 quarts.

About Hin

Liquid measure equal to one-sixth of a bath, or about one gallon (3.8 liters). See Weights and Measures.

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Key References

Exodus 29:40

With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives, and a drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.

Leviticus 19:36

You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 45:24

He shall also provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull and an ephah for each ram, along with a hin of olive oil for each ephah of grain.

All Scripture References (19)

Exodus (2)
Exodus 29:40

With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives, and a drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.

Exodus 30:24

500 shekels of cassia—all according to the sanctuary shekel—and a hin of olive oil.

Leviticus (2)
Leviticus 19:36

You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Leviticus 23:13

along with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil—a food offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma—and its drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.

Numbers (9)
Numbers 15:4

then the one presenting his offering to the LORD shall also present a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter hin of olive oil.

Numbers 15:5

With the burnt offering or sacrifice of each lamb, you are to prepare a quarter hin of wine as a drink offering.

Numbers 15:6

With a ram you are to prepare a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of olive oil,

Numbers 15:7

and a third of a hin of wine as a drink offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

Numbers 15:9

present with the bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of olive oil.

Numbers 15:10

Also present half a hin of wine as a drink offering. It is a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

Numbers 28:5

along with a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives.

Numbers 28:7

The drink offering accompanying each lamb shall be a quarter hin. Pour out the offering of fermented drink to the LORD in the sanctuary area.

Numbers 28:14

Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine with each bull, a third of a hin with the ram, and a quarter hin with each lamb. This is the monthly burnt offering to be made at each new moon throughout the year.

Ezekiel (6)
Ezekiel 4:11

You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times.

Ezekiel 45:24

He shall also provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull and an ephah for each ram, along with a hin of olive oil for each ephah of grain.

Ezekiel 46:5

The grain offering with the ram shall be one ephah, and the grain offering with the lambs shall be as much as he is able, along with a hin of oil per ephah.

Ezekiel 46:7

He is to provide a grain offering of an ephah with the bull, an ephah with the ram, and as much as he is able with the lambs, along with a hin of oil per ephah.

Ezekiel 46:11

At the festivals and appointed feasts, the grain offering shall be an ephah with a bull, an ephah with a ram, and as much as one is able to give with the lambs, along with a hin of oil per ephah.

Ezekiel 46:14

You are also to provide with it every morning a grain offering of a sixth of an ephah with a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour—a grain offering to the LORD. This is a permanent statute.