kasdi · Chaldeans

What it means

kasdi (כַּשְׂדִּי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Chaldeans”.

A people of southern Mesopotamia; later, the Babylonians; also wise men, astrologers.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The Chaldeans, or the Babylonians.
2. The land of Chaldea, in southern Mesopotamia, where Babylon stood.
3. The wise men of the Babylonian court.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Chaldean: the people of southern Mesopotamia, with Babylon; in the Bible, above all the Babylonian army that conquered Judah. It is a gentilic. BDB: a Chaldean, an inhabitant of Chaldea. In Daniel 2:2 the Chaldeans appear alongside the king’s magicians and astrologers.

• “Ur of the Chaldeans” Genesis 11:31
• The Chaldean army against Jerusalem 2 Kings 25:4Jeremiah 21:4
• “I am raising up the Chaldeans” Habakkuk 1:6
• The Chaldeans among the wise men of the court Daniel 2:2
• Raiders in Job; the land of Chaldea Job 1:17Ezekiel 23:15

Historical and cultural background

Abram went out with Terah “from Ur of the Chaldeans” (Genesis 11:31). In 2 Kings 25 the Chaldeans breach Jerusalem and burn the house of YHWH. In Daniel 2:2 the word also names a group of wise men at the court of Babylon.

How we translate it

“Chaldeans” 73 times and “Chaldea” 7, when the Hebrew names the land (Ezekiel 23:15).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Chaldeans ×73
• Chaldea ×7

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• 2 Kings×8
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×1
• Isaiah×7
• Jeremiah×46
• Ezekiel×8
• Daniel×4
• Habakkuk×1

• Genesis 11:28

  Haran died in the presence of Terah his father in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

• Genesis 11:31

  Terah took Abram his son, Lot son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came as far as Haran and settled there.

• Genesis 15:7

  And he said to him, “I am YHWH who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess it.”

• 2 Kings 24:2

  YHWH sent against him bands of Chaldeans, bands of Aram, bands of Moab, and bands of the sons of Ammon; he sent them against Judah to make it perish, according to the word of YHWH that he had spoken through his servants the prophets.

• 2 Kings 25:4

  The city was breached, and all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls that is by the garden of the king, while the Chaldeans were against the city all around; and he went by way of the Arabah.

• 2 Kings 25:5

  The force of the Chaldeans pursued after the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his force was scattered from around him.

• 2 Kings 25:10

  And the walls around Jerusalem all the force of the Chaldeans that was with the chief of the guard tore down.

• 2 Kings 25:13

  The pillars of bronze that were in the house of YHWH, and the stands, and the bronze Sea that was in the house of YHWH, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and they carried their bronze to Babylon.

• 2 Kings 25:24

  Gedaliah swore to them and to their men and said to them, “Do not fear the servants of the Chaldeans. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.”

• 2 Kings 25:25

  And it happened in the seventh month that Ishmael son of Nethaniah son of Elishama, of the royal offspring, came, and ten men with him, and they struck Gedaliah, and he died, and the Jews and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.

• 2 Kings 25:26

  All the people, from the small to the great, and the chiefs of the forces arose and went to Egypt, for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.

• 2 Chronicles 36:17

  He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or the very old; he gave them all into his hand.

• Nehemiah 9:7

  You are YHWH, the Elohim who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans, and gave him the name Abraham;

• Job 1:17

  This one was still speaking when another came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and took them, and the young men they struck with the edge of the sword, and I escaped, only I, I alone, to tell you.”

• Isaiah 13:19

  And Babylon, the ornament of kingdoms, the beauty of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be like the overthrow by Elohim of Sodom and Gomorrah.

• Isaiah 23:13

  Look, the land of the Chaldeans: this people was not; Assyria founded it for desert creatures; they raised their siege towers, they stripped its palaces; he made it a ruin.

• Isaiah 43:14

  Thus says YHWH, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and I have brought down as fugitives all of them, and the Chaldeans, in the ships of their shout of joy.

• Isaiah 47:1

  “Go down and sit on the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans; for they will not again call you tender and delicate.

• Isaiah 47:5

  “Sit in silence, and go into the darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for they will not again call you lady of kingdoms.

• Isaiah 48:14

  Gather, all of you, and hear: who among them has declared these things? YHWH loves him; he will do his desire on Babylon, and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.

• Isaiah 48:20

  Go out from Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans; with a voice of joyful shouting declare, make this heard, send it out to the end of the earth; say, “YHWH has redeemed his servant Jacob.”

• Jeremiah 21:4

  ‘Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel: Look, I am turning back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the wall; and I will gather them into the midst of this city.

• Jeremiah 21:9

  He who stays in this city will die by the sword and by the famine and by the pestilence; but he who goes out and falls away to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live, and he will have his life as plunder.

• Jeremiah 22:25

  And I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of those whom you dread, before them, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

• Jeremiah 24:5

  “Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the exiles of Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans, for good.

• Jeremiah 25:12

  And it will be, when seventy years are completed, I will visit upon the king of Babylon and upon that nation, declares YHWH, their iniquity, and upon the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it eternal desolations.

• Jeremiah 32:4

  and Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape from the hand of the Chaldeans, but he will surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and his mouth will speak with his mouth, and his eyes will see his eyes;

• Jeremiah 32:5

  and to Babylon he will take Zedekiah, and there he will remain until I visit him, declares YHWH; though you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not succeed’?”

• Jeremiah 32:24

  Look, the siege ramps have come to the city to capture it, and the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it, because of the sword and the famine and the pestilence; and what you have spoken has happened, and look, you see it.

• Jeremiah 32:25

  Yet you have said to me, Adonai YHWH, “Buy for yourself the field with silver, and have witnesses testify,” though the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’”

• Jeremiah 32:28

  Therefore thus says YHWH: Look, I am giving this city into the hand of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will capture it.

• Jeremiah 32:29

  And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come and set this city on fire and burn it, along with the houses on whose roofs they burned incense to Baal and poured out libations to other gods, to provoke me.

• Jeremiah 32:43

  And the field will be bought in this land of which you are saying, ‘It is a desolation, without human being or livestock; it has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’

• Jeremiah 33:5

  They are coming to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the corpses of the human beings whom I have struck in my anger and in my fury, and because I have hidden my face from this city because of all their evil.

• Jeremiah 35:11

  But it happened, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against the land, that we said, ‘Come, and let us go to Jerusalem, because of the army of the Chaldeans and because of the army of Aram’; so we have lived in Jerusalem.”

• Jeremiah 37:5

  And the army of Pharaoh had come out of Egypt, and the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard the news of them, and they withdrew from Jerusalem.

• Jeremiah 37:8

  And the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city, and they will capture it and burn it with fire.’

• Jeremiah 37:9

  Thus says YHWH: Do not deceive your souls, saying, ‘The Chaldeans will surely go away from us,’ for they will not go away.

• Jeremiah 37:10

  For even if you struck down the whole army of the Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and there remained among them wounded men, each in his tent, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.”

• Jeremiah 37:11

  And it happened, when the army of the Chaldeans withdrew from Jerusalem because of the army of Pharaoh,

And 40 more times.