How Frequently Does Wine Appear in the Mishnah?

How frequently does wine appear in the Mishnah (יין במשנה)? The phrase יין appears in the Mishnah more than 235 times*🍷🍷🍷

The next question you may be asking: where does it appear the most frequently? Let’s start by breaking down the occurrences of the phrase יין in the Mishnah by סדר (seder):

1. 1. סדר נזיקין – 66
   2. סדר זרעים – 53
   3. סדר נשים – 34
   4. סדר מועד – 33
   5. סדר טהרות – 33
   6. סדר קדשים – 23

Now, how about the tractates? Here is the top ten list for the appearances of the term יין in the Mishnah, by tractate:

1. 1. עבודה זרה 29
   2. תרומות 19
   3. נדרים 15
   4. נזיר 14
   5. ברכות 11
   6. בבא מציעא 11
   7. דמאי 10
   8. מנחות 10
   9. כלים 10
   10. בבא בתרא 9

These top ten tractates comprise 138 appearances of יין in the Mishnah, meaning that more than 57% of the appearances are in these ten tractates.

Curious to see the list of the remaining Mishnah tractates? Here you go:

Due to its significantly nature, I did not include Avot in this list, but, if you’re curious to read about the appearances of wine in Pirkei Avot, check out this post.

* Numbers included in this post are derived from tallying up the occurrences as recorded in Rabbi Chaim Yehoshua Bentzion Kosowsky’s אוצר לשון המשנה: ספר המתאימות – קונקורדנציה לששה סדרי משנה