The Sages of the Talmud

רבינא Ravina

Amora of Babylonia · 6th generation (c. 375–425 CE) — named 912 times across 36 tractates of the Bavli.

Amora of Babylonia · 6th generation×912 named in the Bavli36 tractates1 as a patronymicWants a person’s eye

Ravina, of the sixth Babylonian generation, was Rava's student and Rav Ashi's colleague at Sura, and the Talmud names the two of them together as the end of instruction — the point at which the amoraic age closes and the Gemara stands as we have it. He is named some nine hundred times and appears beside Rav Ashi more than beside anyone else.

The name covers more than one man. The tradition distinguishes the Ravina who sat with Rav Ashi from the later Ravina, son of Rav Huna, who lived a generation on and completed the work; the Bavli's unqualified רבינא does not mark which is meant, and this index does not split them on guesswork.

Rav Ashi's colleague. The Bavli's unqualified רבינא covers both Ravina I and the later Ravina bar Rav Huna; they are not separated here.

The gematria of the name

Computed from the consonantal letters of רבינא 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.