Talmud Term Index

Glossary of personal names, place names, and key terms in the Babylonian Talmud. Includes corpus counts, Wikipedia links, Hebrew terms, and biographical data.

The term index covers 4,904 terms from the Babylonian Talmud — sages, places, concepts, and technical terminology — with corpus frequency counts and links to Wikipedia and Wikidata where available.

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Most Frequent Terms in the Talmud Corpus

  1. Rava (4,322 occurrences)
  2. Rabbi Yoḥanan (3,687 occurrences)
  3. Rav (3,518 occurrences)
  4. Torah (3,381 occurrences)
  5. Rabbi Yehuda (3,351 occurrences)
  6. Shmuel (2,636 occurrences)
  7. Abaye (2,519 occurrences)
  8. Shabbat (2,485 occurrences)
  9. Sin offering (2,276 occurrences)
  10. Rabbi Meir (2,086 occurrences)
  11. impurity (2,023 occurrences)
  12. Rabbi (1,908 occurrences)
  13. Rabbi Shimon (1,867 occurrences)
  14. priest (1,861 occurrences)
  15. burnt offering (1,714 occurrences)
  16. sin (1,714 occurrences)
  17. Temple (1,701 occurrences)
  18. Rav Yehuda (1,672 occurrences)
  19. Rabbi Eliezer (1,661 occurrences)
  20. Rabbi Yosei (1,592 occurrences)
  21. Rabbi Akiva (1,503 occurrences)
  22. mitzva (1,464 occurrences)
  23. Rav Ashi (1,419 occurrences)
  24. teruma (1,393 occurrences)
  25. Rabbi Elazar (1,366 occurrences)
  26. Rav Naḥman (1,365 occurrences)
  27. Rav Pappa (1,357 occurrences)
  28. Guilt offering (1,284 occurrences)
  29. meal offering (1,282 occurrences)
  30. Sheshet (1,220 occurrences)
  31. Rav Huna (1,164 occurrences)
  32. Rav Yosef (1,128 occurrences)
  33. Rav Ḥisda (1,126 occurrences)
  34. ritually impure (987 occurrences)
  35. Rabba (969 occurrences)
  36. Reish Lakish (964 occurrences)
  37. altar (933 occurrences)
  38. Beit Shammai (880 occurrences)
  39. firstborn (813 occurrences)
  40. ḥalitza (793 occurrences)
  41. peace offering (774 occurrences)
  42. Ravina (756 occurrences)
  43. ritual impurity (753 occurrences)
  44. Beit Hillel (751 occurrences)
  45. marriage contract (743 occurrences)
  46. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel (738 occurrences)
  47. Rabbi Yehoshua (718 occurrences)
  48. Nazirite (687 occurrences)
  49. Rabbi Zeira (668 occurrences)
  50. Jewish people (616 occurrences)
  51. non-sacred (614 occurrences)
  52. Moses (561 occurrences)
  53. Torah law (557 occurrences)
  54. Rabbi Yishmael (552 occurrences)
  55. Jew (549 occurrences)
  56. thanks offering (536 occurrences)
  57. Prayer (532 occurrences)
  58. World to come (518 occurrences)
  59. Ulla (517 occurrences)
  60. idol worship (508 occurrences)
  61. karet (505 occurrences)
  62. Israel (473 occurrences)
  63. Rav Kahana (471 occurrences)
  64. Yom Kippur (467 occurrences)
  65. Rav Naḥman bar Yitzḥak (457 occurrences)
  66. Jerusalem (452 occurrences)
  67. tereifa (449 occurrences)
  68. Levirate marriage (447 occurrences)
  69. High Priest (430 occurrences)
  70. piggul (429 occurrences)
  71. the public domain (420 occurrences)
  72. Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi (415 occurrences)
  73. sukka (415 occurrences)
  74. Rabbi Abbahu (412 occurrences)
  75. righteous (408 occurrences)
  76. Rabban Gamliel (406 occurrences)
  77. Sabbatical (402 occurrences)
  78. mitzvot (399 occurrences)
  79. Rabbi Ḥanina (392 occurrences)
  80. Rabbi Ḥiyya (392 occurrences)
  81. Rami bar Hama (384 occurrences)
  82. Rabbi Yitzḥak (380 occurrences)
  83. Second tithe (368 occurrences)
  84. wicked (366 occurrences)
  85. Rabba bar bar Ḥana (361 occurrences)
  86. Passover (359 occurrences)
  87. Eretz Yisrael (357 occurrences)
  88. Paschal lamb (345 occurrences)
  89. Rabbi Yirmeya (342 occurrences)
  90. judgment (339 occurrences)
  91. rabbinic law (339 occurrences)
  92. phylacteries (337 occurrences)
  93. Rabbi Ami (337 occurrences)
  94. Rav Asi (334 occurrences)
  95. David (327 occurrences)
  96. Hamnuna (327 occurrences)
  97. Babylonia (304 occurrences)
  98. Israelite (301 occurrences)
  99. Rabbi Abba (290 occurrences)
  100. libations (287 occurrences)