ملامد

Also known as melammed

thumb|right|A Jewish father teaching a child in 19th-century Podolia. Melamed, Melammed ( "teacher") in Biblical times denoted a religious teacher or instructor in general (e.g., in Psalm 119:99 and Proverbs 5:13), but which in the Talmudic period was applied especially to a teacher of children, and was almost invariably followed by the word tinokot ( "children"). The Aramaic equivalent was .