HIN, an hollow measure of the Hebrews. It was half an Hebrew Seah, or the sixth part of a Bath. It held one gallon and two pints1.
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Translators’ note. Hin was a liquid Measure; as of Oil, for instance; Exod. xxx. Ezek. xlv. 46. or of Wine, Exod. xxix. Levit. xxiii. Ac- cording to Josephus, it contained two Attick Congii, lib. 3. cap. 9, & 10. Therefore it was the sixth part of an Ephah. Josephus writes, lib. 3. ἀρχαιολ*. that they offered with an Ox, the half of an* Hin of oil; or, in English measure, according to Josephus, 6 pints 25,698 solid inches; according to the Tables, 5 pints 1,267 solid inches. With a Ram they offered the third part of a Hin, or 3 pints, 10,469 solid inches. And with a Lamb, the fourth part, or 2 pints, 15,071 solid inches. The Prophet Ezekiel was commanded to drink water to the quantity of the sixth part of an Hin, that is 1 pint, 19,672 solid inches. The LXX render Hin falsly χοῦν, or one Congius, Levit. xix. and with a much greater difference from the truth, the Latin Version renders it Sextarius. Epiphanius makes a twofold Hin; the greater of 18 Sextarii, the lesser of 9. Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights, and Measures. ↩