Lexical Definition

‎כַּסְדַּי‎ Kaçday (kas-dah'-ee) Chaldean ^N:N--LG
for ‎כַּשְׂדִּי‎

Chaldean.

• § Chaldean = see Chaldea "clod-breakers"
• {a Kasdite, or descendant of Kesed
• by implication, a Chaldaean (as if so descended)
• also an astrologer (as if proverbial of that people}

1) a group of people usually associated with the area around Babylonia
2) the learned class of priests, magicians, or astronomers

Extended Information

Aramaic of: כַּשְׂדִּי

• Aramaic of kas.di (‎כ‎ַּ‎ש‎ְׂ‎ד‎ִּ‎ים‎ "Chaldea" כַּשְׂדִּי)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎כַּשְׂדִּים‎ proper name, of a people and territory Kasdim = Chaldeans, Chaldea, ᵐ5 Ξαλδαῖοι and (Jer 50:10) ἡ Ξαλδαία (Assyrian (mat) Kaldu, Kaldû from earlier (Babylonian) form [* Kašdu] — š before dental becoming l, Dl^{Par 128 f.} 200 f.; Assyrian Gr. § 51, 3; Schr^{KGF 94ff.}; COT on Gen 11:28); —

1. Chaldeans:
a. people dwelling on lower Euphrates and Tigris; in proper name, of a location ‎׳‎‎אוּר כ‎ Gen 11:28 (J), vGen 11:31 (P), Gen 15:7 (J), Neh 9:7.
b. especially the people ruled by Nebuchadrezzar; — ‎׳‎‎כ‎ Jer 37:10; Jer 39:5; Ezek 23:23; 2Kgs 24:2; 2Kgs 25:4; 2Kgs 25:5; 2Kgs 25:10; 2Kgs 25:13 = Jer 52:7; Jer 52:8; Jer 52:14; Jer 52:17 (2Kgs 24:5; 2Kgs 24:10 = also Jer 39:5; Jer 39:8), 2Kgs 25:26; Isa 13:19; Isa 43:14; Isa 48:14; Isa 48:20; Job 1:17 Kt. ‎כַּשְׂדִּיִּים‎ Ezek 23:14; 2Chr 36:17 ‎׳‎‎הַכּ‎ Jer 21:4; Jer 21:9; Jer 22:25; Jer 32:4; Jer 32:5; Jer 32:24; Jer 32:25; Jer 32:28; Jer 32:29; Jer 32:43; Jer 33:5; Jer 35:11; Jer 37:5; Jer 37:8; Jer 37:9; Jer 37:11; Jer 37:13; Jer 37:14; Jer 38:2; Jer 38:18; Jer 38:19; Jer 38:23; Jer 39:8; Jer 40:9; Jer 40:10; Jer 41:3; Jer 41:18; Jer 43:3; Jer 50:35; Hab 1:6; 2Kgs 25:24; 2Kgs 25:25 ‎׳‎‎בַּתכֿ‎ Isa 47:1; Isa 47:5 = Babylon (in dirge); ‎׳‎‎אֶרֶץ כ‎ ἡ γῆ Ξαλδαίων on locality see Schr Dl^l.c.) Jer 24:5; Jer 25:12; Jer 50:1; Jer 50:8; Jer 50:25; Jer 50:45; Jer 51:4; Jer 51:54; Ezek 1:3; Ezek 12:3, also Isa 23:13 (inauthentic, Di Che; read ‎כְּנַעֲנִים‎ Ew Schr, or ‎כִּתִּים‎ Du); ‎סֵפֶר‎ ‎׳‎‎וּלְשׂוֺן כ‎ Dan 1:4 ‎׳‎‎מַלְכוּת כ‎ Dan 9:1.
c. Chaldeans, as learned class, skilled in interpretations Dan 2:2 (+ ‎חַרְטֻמִּים‎ ‎אַשָּׁפִים‎ ‎מְכַשְּׁפִים‎), vDan 2:4.

2. Chaldea, ‎וְהָֽיְתָה כַּשְׂדִּים לְשָׁלָל‎ Jer 50:10 and Chaldea shall be despoiled; ‎׳‎‎יוֺשְׁבֵי כ‎ Jer 51:24; Jer 51:35 ‎כַּשְׂדִּים אֶרֶץ מוֺלַדְתָּם‎ Ezek 23:15 with ‎ה‎ locative: ‎כַּשְׂדִּ֫ימָה‎ Ezek 11:24; Ezek 16:29; Ezek 23:16.

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