Hill (T^fl, hin, Sept. tlv, 'iv, or vv), a measure of liquids, containing the seventh part of a " bath" (Numb. XV, 4 sq. ; xxviii, 5, 7, 14 ; Ezek. iv, 11), i. e. twelve Ro- man sextarii, according to Josephus (t'lv, Ant. iii, 8, S; ix, 4), or about five quarts. The word corresponds with the Egyptian /m, hno, which properly signifies a vessel, and then a small measure, sextarius, Greek 'ii'ov (see Leemans, Lettre a SalcoUiii, p. 154; Bcickh, Metrolog. Untersuch. p. 244, 260). But it is not certain that the Hebrew and English measures were of the same size. — Gesenius. According to the Rabbins, the hin contains only the sixth part of the bath. See Measure.
Hiuchcliffe, John, D.D., was born in Westminster in 1731. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1764 he was appointed head master of Westminster Seminar^', in 1766 vicar of Greenwich, and in 1769 bishoji of Peterborough. Hiuch- cliffe was a man of sound scholarshi]i, and especially cel- ebrated as an orator both in the pulpit and in the forum. He died in 1794. He only published three sermons de- livered on public occasions. A collection of his Sermons (London, 1796, 8vo) is not without merit, but they cer- tainly did not meet the expectations of his contempo- raries.— Hook, Eccles. Biog. vi, 73 ; Allibone, Diet, of A u- Ihors, i, 850.
Hinckelmann, Abraham, a distinguished German theologian and Orientalist, born at Doebeln, near Ham- burg, May 2, 1652, was educated at the University of Wit- tenberg. After filling several important appointments as minister, he was, in 1687, made court preacher to the landgrave of Hesse- Darmstadt, and honoran,' professor at the I'luversity of Giessen. But in the year immediate- ly following he resigned these positions and returned to Hamburg. Here he was accused by some ministers of sympathy mth Millenarians and Pietists, ^vhich so wrought upon his constitution and mind that he died af- ter a short illness, February 11, 1695. Among his works are especially worthy of note, Sjillofje rocum et phrasum rahhinicarum obscuriorum (Ltibeck, 1675, 4to) : — De Scholiis Jlebreeorum : — De Sacrijiciis Hebr.:— Testament. et padiones inter Muhammedem et Christianm jidei Cul- lores (Arab, and Lat., Hamb. 1690, 4to). He published also Alcoran, really the first edition of the Koran, as that of Paganini (Yen. 1530) was almost wholly destroyed by order of the pope. He also left in IMS. Lexicon arabico- lalinum in Alcoranum.—Jocher, Alle/em. Gelehrt. Lex. ii, 1612 ; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gen. xxiv, 705 sq. (J. H. W.)
Hinckley, John, D.D., an English clergyman, was bom in Wanvickshira in 1617, and was educated at St. Alban's Hall, Oxford. He filled successively the vicar- ate of Coleshill, Berkshire, and t'.ie rectorships of Dray-
ton, Leicestershire, and Northfield, Worcestershire. He died in 1695. He published Four Sermons (Oxf. 1657, 8vo): — Epistolu Veridica (1659, 4to): — Persuasive to Conformity (1670, 8vo), addressed in the form of a letter to the Dissenters : — Fasciculus litei-urum, or L.etters on several Occasions (1680, 8vo). The first half contains letters exchanged between him and Richard Baxter on the divisions in the Church. — Hook, Eccles. Biog.yi, 74; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gener. xxiv, 706 ; Allibone, Diet, of Authors,!, 850.
Hincks, Edward, D.D., a clergyman of the Church of England, and a distinguished Assyrian schol- ar, was born in August, 1792, and was prepared for college under his father's care. He entered Trinity College, Dublin, at a very early age, and obtained a fellowship before he was twenty-one, being facile princeps of all the candidates. After graduation he became rector of Ardtrea, one of the college livings, whence he was pro- moted to Killyleagh, in the diocese of Down (north of Ireland), and there he spent the last forty-one years of his life. Dr. Hincks was considered one of the best phi- lologists in Europe. He contributed numerous valuable papers, especially on Egyptian hieroglyphics and Assyr- ian cuneiform inscriptions, to the Royal Irish Academy, the Royal Society of Literature, the Asiatic Society, and the British Association. " His talent for deciphering texts in unknown characters and languages was wonder- ful. It was applied to the study of Egj-j^tian hieroglyph- ics, and to the inscriptions in the cuneiform character found in Persepolis, Nineveh, and other parts of ancient Assyria. In this field especially he labored for years with great perseverance and success, having been the first to ascertain the numeral system, and the power and form of its signs by means of the inscriptions at Van. He was one of the chief restorers of AssjTian leaniing, throw- ing great light on the linguistic character and grammat- ical structure of the languages represented on the As- syrian monuments. Living in a remote country vil- lage, with very limited means at his command, he had to contend with great difficulties. In London, beside the British Museum, he would have accomplished more than he did" (London A thenceum, December, 1866). He died December 3, 1866. See Cuneiform Inscriptions ; Hieroglyphics. (J. H. W.)
Hincks, John, a Unitarian minister, born in Cork, Ireland, in 1804, was educated at Trinity College, Dub- lin, and the Belfast Academical Institution, and in 1827 was called to a Unitarian Church at Liverpool. He died in 1831. The only published writings of his are Ser- mons and occasional services, with Memoir by J. IL Thorn (Lond. 1832, 8vo).— Darling, Cyclop. Bibliog. i, 1484 ; Al- libone, Diet, of A uthors, i, 850.