The Sages of the Talmud

רב חיננא Rav Chinena

Amora of Babylonia · 5th generation (c. 350–375 CE) — named 25 times across 15 tractates of the Bavli.

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Rav Chinena, of the fifth Babylonian generation. The entry is marked for review: more than one sage carries the name, and the bare form does not separate them.

He is named some twenty-five times across fifteen tractates, one of those inside another's patronymic, spread as thinly as the count allows, with Pesachim the heaviest. Beyond the generation, the centre and the company the name keeps, the reference tradition holds little that can be stated firmly.

More than one sage of the name.

The gematria of the name

Computed from the consonantal letters of רב חיננא by the same engine that runs every search. This is the value of a NAME — no word of the Talmud is valued anywhere in this app.

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Talmud Bavli, Wikisource edition, via Sefaria — CC BY-SA 4.0. A mention is an occurrence of a name-form the roster lists, found by longest match — not a scholarly attribution census; the index says what that means in full.