Chaldean
כַּשְׂדָּ֑יStrong’s H3679kasday (kas-day)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Kasday is the Aramaic word usually translated “chaldean the”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.”
Meaning
- A group of people usually associated with the area around Babylonia
- The learned class of priests, magicians, or astronomers
How it's translated
- chaldean the 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Aramaic dictionary
כַּשְׂדָּ֑י kasday · Chaldean
Aramaic of kas.di (כַּשְׂדִּים "Chaldea" H3778) § Chaldean, of Chaldea "clod-breakers" 1) a group of people usually associated with the area around Babylonia 2) the learned class of priests, magicians, or astronomers
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “chaldean” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CHALDEAN, noun
An inhabitant of Chaldea.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.