כַּשְׂדַּי
kasday · Chaldean
Aramaic word · Strong’s number H3779 · appears 8 times in the Bible
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kasday (כַּשְׂדַּי) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “Chaldean”.
(Aramaic): a person of Chaldea, Babylonian; also one of the learned men or astrologers of Babylon.
How to say it
kas·day
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
- Chaldean: from Babylon; also the wise men who studied the stars.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- Chaldeans ×5
- Chaldean ×3
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Daniel 2:5
The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, “The word from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be made into pieces, and your houses will be made a dunghill.
- Daniel 2:10
The Chaldeans answered before the king and said, “There is no man on the dry land who can declare the king’s matter, because no king, great and ruling, has asked a thing like this of any magician or enchanter or Chaldean.
- Daniel 3:8
Because of this, at that time, certain Chaldean men came forward and accused the Jews.
- Daniel 4:7
Then there came in the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the diviners; and the dream I told before them, but its interpretation they did not make known to me.
- Daniel 5:7
The king called out with strength to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the diviners. The king answered and said to the wise men of Babylon, “Any man who reads this writing and declares to me its interpretation will be clothed with purple, and a necklace of gold will be on his neck, and as third in the kingdom he will rule.”
- Daniel 5:11
There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods, and in the days of your father light and insight and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods were found in him; and King Nebuchadnezzar, your father, made him chief of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and diviners, — your father, the king —
- Daniel 5:30
In that very night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was killed.
And 1 more times.