Definitions for heder

heder he·der

Spelling: [khey-duh r; English
IPA: /ˈxeɪ dər; English ˈxeɪ dər, -ˈheɪ-/

Heder is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in heder (deehr).

Definitions for heder

noun

  1. (especially in Europe) a private Jewish elementary school for teaching children Hebrew, Bible, and the fundamentals of Judaism.
  2. (in the U.S.) Talmud Torah (def 2).

Examples for heder

I went to my brother's heder, sometimes, to bring him his dinner, and saw how the boys studied.

Joseph was in heder all day; the baby was a quiet little thing; Mashke was no worse than usual.

Joseph was the best Jewish boy that ever was born, but he hated to go to heder, so he had to be whipped, of course.

These developed later into the ivy leaf , or heder distinguentes.

There was nothing in what the boys did in heder that I could not have done—if I had not been a girl.

Attendance at the heder was compulsory for all children of school age, approximately from six to thirteen.

The heder was the only beginning allowable for a boy in Polotzk, and to heder Joseph must go.

Promptly when custom prescribed, Pinchus, the petted only son, was sent to heder.

On Fridays the heder pupils presented themselves in a body before the rosh-yeshibah himself, to undergo a similar examination.

The boys came to heder before nine in the morning, and remained until eight or nine in the evening.

Word Value for heder
Scrable

9

Words with friends

8

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