Hin to US Cups (hin to cup)

1 hin equals 15.49809374 US cups (rounded).

1 hin = 15.49809374 US cups

How to convert hin to US cups

To convert hin to US cups, multiply the number of hin by 15.49809374. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply US cups by 0.0645240645.

US cups = hin × 15.49809374

Example: 10 hin = 154.9809374 US cups.

Pints, quarts, gallons and fluid ounces differ between the US and the UK. Units are labeled 'US' or 'imperial' to avoid confusion.

Approximate value. Standards for the hin varied by place and period, so this converter uses the most commonly cited value. Treat results as estimates, not exact figures.

About these units

Hin (hin)

Biblical (Hebrew)Historical unit (no longer in standard use)Approximate value

A sixth of a bath, about 3.7 L. A biblical liquid measure for oil and wine.

Hin appears in the Pentateuch and in Ezekiel as the measure for the oil and wine poured out in the sanctuary offerings. The rabbinic tables define it by its neighbours: one hin holds twelve log, and six hin make a bath. Because the hin is defined only as a fraction of the bath, it inherits every uncertainty of that larger unit.

Taking the roughly 22 litre bath reconstructed from marked jars at Tell Beit Mirsim gives a hin of about 3.7 litres, the figure used here. Starting instead from the log at about 0.505 litres, a value tied to Babylonian weights, twelve log would give nearer 6 litres. That gap shows how far apart the reconstructions can be. A hin of about 3.7 litres is close to a US gallon, which makes it a handy rough comparison for modern readers.

1 hin = 3.666666667 liters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Hin (unit); Wikipedia: Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement

US Cup (cup)

US customaryCurrent unit

One sixteenth of a US gallon, 236.588 mL (8 US fluid ounces). The standard US recipe cup.

Cups began as household drinking vessels, not scientific units, which is why they remain the messiest measures in the kitchen. The US customary cup was defined by slicing up the gallon: half a pint, or eight US fluid ounces, about 236.6 milliliters. Unlike the larger units, nobody ever fixed it to a physical vessel, so it exists only as a fraction of the gallon.

The customary cup is not the only American cup. For nutrition labels, US regulation defines a cup as exactly 240 milliliters, a rounder figure that sits slightly above the customary size. Packaged foods therefore list a serving in the legal cup while a measuring cup from the hardware store follows the customary definition. The gap is 3.4 milliliters, which hardly matters for soup but can matter in baking. Cup measures also hide the weight of dry ingredients, since a cup of sifted flour and a cup of packed flour differ substantially, which is why much of the world prefers grams.

1 US cup = 0.2365882365 liters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Cup (unit); NIST SP 811, Appendix B.8: conversion factors for volume; 21 CFR 101.9: nutrition labeling household measures

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