Liters to Hin (L to hin)

1 liter equals 0.2727272727 hin (rounded).

1 liter = 0.2727272727 hin

How to convert liters to hin

To convert liters to hin, multiply the number of liters by 0.2727272727. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply hin by 3.666666667 (rounded).

hin = liters × 0.2727272727

Example: 10 liters = 2.727272727 hin.

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

Liter (L)

Metric (SI)Current unit

One cubic decimeter (1,000 cm³). The everyday metric unit of volume for drinks, fuel and cooking.

The liter was born in revolutionary France. In 1795 it was introduced as a republican unit and defined as one cubic decimeter, while the gram was tied to a cubic centimeter of water. The name comes from the older French litron, itself descended from a Byzantine Greek unit of weight, not volume. A small revision of the decimeter in 1798 left the first liter about 1.000974 of today's cubic decimeter, and in 1879 the international metric authorities adopted the liter with the symbol l.

The liter then took a strange detour. In 1901 it was redefined as the space taken up by one kilogram of pure water at its densest, which made it about 1.000028 cubic decimeters, and that muddled definition lasted until 1964, when it was restored to exactly one cubic decimeter. A capital L was added as an alternative symbol in 1979 because a lowercase l is easy to mistake for the digit 1, and NIST says L is the symbol to use in the United States. A liter of water is close to a kilogram, which is why a one-liter bottle feels like a kilo in the hand.

The liter is the reference unit for volume on this site.

Sources: Wikipedia: Litre; NIST Guide to the SI, Chapter 5: units outside the SI

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

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