Hin

Not everything in the law is about big ideas. Some of it is about the size of a jug. The hin was a liquid measure, and it appears when the offerings are described: for example “the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil” and a fourth part of wine for a drink offering in Exodus 29:40. Leviticus 19:36 uses it in a rule about honest trade: “Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have.” Scripture does not give its size in modern terms. What matters in these verses is that the amount be fair, in worship and in the market alike.

3 verses

Exodus

Exodus 29:40

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.

Leviticus

Leviticus 19:36

Just 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 23:13

And 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.

From Smith's Bible Dictionary

William Smith, 1884

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Based on Nave's Topical Bible by Orville J. Nave (1896). Dictionary entries from Smith's Bible Dictionary. Public domain. KJV scripture text, public domain.