Chaldean
כַּשְׂדַּיStrong’s H3779kasday (kas-day)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kasday is the Aramaic word usually translated “chaldeans the”, “chaldean” and “chaldeans”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.”
Meaning
- A territory in lower Mesopotamia bordering on the Persian Gulf
- The inhabitants of Chaldea, living on the lower Euphrates and Tigris
- Those persons considered the wisest in the land (by extension)
How it's translated
- chaldeans the 4
- to chaldeans the 1
- and chaldean 1
- chaldean 1
- chaldeans 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 7
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:10In contextThe Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.
- Daniel 3:8In contextWherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews.
- Daniel 4:7In contextThen came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof.
- Daniel 5:7In contextThe king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
- Daniel 5:11In contextThere is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
- Daniel 5:30In contextIn that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
Aramaic dictionary
כַּשְׂדַּי kasday · Chaldean
Group of kas.di (כַּשְׂדִּים "Chaldea" H3778) § Chaldean = "clod breakers" 1) a territory in lower Mesopotamia bordering on the Persian Gulf 2) the inhabitants of Chaldea, living on the lower Euphrates and Tigris 3) those persons considered the wisest in the land (by extension)
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.