hin · hin

What it means

hin (הִין) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hin”.

A measure for liquids, about four liters.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A liquid measure, about four liters.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

• Exodus×3
• Leviticus×2
• Numbers×11
• Ezekiel×6

• Exodus 29:40

  And a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of beaten oil, and a libation of a quarter of a hin of wine, for the one lamb.

• Exodus 30:24

  and of cassia five hundred, by the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin.

• Leviticus 19:36

  You shall have just scales, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am YHWH your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

• Leviticus 23:13

  and its grain offering, two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, a fire offering to YHWH, a pleasing aroma; and its libation of wine, a fourth of a hin.

• Numbers 15:4

  the one who presents his offering to YHWH shall present a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil;

• Numbers 15:5

  and wine for the libation, a quarter of a hin, you shall offer with the burnt offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.

• Numbers 15:6

  Or for a ram you shall offer a grain offering of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil;

• Numbers 15:7

  and wine for the libation, a third of a hin, you shall present, a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Numbers 15:9

  one shall present with the young bull a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil;

• Numbers 15:10

  and wine you shall present for the libation, half a hin, a fire offering of pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Numbers 28:5

  and a tenth of the ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with a quarter of a hin of beaten oil.

• Numbers 28:7

  Its libation shall be a quarter of a hin for the one lamb; in the holy place pour out a libation of intoxicating drink to YHWH.

• Numbers 28:14

  And their libations shall be half a hin for a bull, and a third of a hin for a ram, and a quarter of a hin for a lamb, of wine. This is the burnt offering of each month for the months of the year.

• Ezekiel 4:11

  And water by measure you will drink, the sixth of a hin; from time to time you will drink it.

• Ezekiel 45:24

  And as a grain offering he shall offer an ephah for each bull and an ephah for each ram, and a hin of oil for each ephah.

• Ezekiel 46:5

  And the grain offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs the grain offering shall be the gift of his hand, and a hin of oil for each ephah.

• Ezekiel 46:7

  And an ephah for the bull and an ephah for the ram he shall offer as a grain offering, and for the lambs such as his means reach, and a hin of oil for each ephah.

• Ezekiel 46:11

  And at the feasts and at the appointed times the grain offering shall be an ephah for the bull and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs the gift of his hand, and a hin of oil for each ephah.

• Ezekiel 46:14

  And you shall offer a grain offering with it morning after morning, a sixth of an ephah, and oil, a third of a hin, to moisten the fine flour, a grain offering to YHWH; statutes forever, continually.

And 3 more times.