Chaldean
כַּשְׂדָּ֑יStrong’s H3778kasday (kas-day)
Appears in 80 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kasday is the Hebrew word usually translated “chaldeans”, “chaldea” and “chaldea towards”. It appears in 80 verses of the Old Testament.
“Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.”
Meaning
- A group of people usually associated with the area around Babylonia
- The learned class of priests, magicians, or astronomers
How it's translated
- chaldeans 32
- the chaldeans 32
- of chaldeans 4
- chaldea 4
- and chaldeans 3
- chaldea towards 3
- from chaldeans 1
- and the chaldeans 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 46
- 2 Kings 8
- Ezekiel 8
- Isaiah 7
- Daniel 4
- Genesis 3
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:2In contextThen the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.
- Daniel 2:4In contextThen spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.
- Daniel 9:1In contextIn the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;
- Genesis 11:28And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
- Genesis 11:31And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
- Genesis 15:7And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
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Hebrew 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.