Lexical Definition

‎כַּשְׂדַּי‎ Kasday (kas-dah'-ee) Chaldean ^N:N--LG
(Aramaic) corresponding to ‎כַּשְׂדִּי‎

Chaldean.

• § Chaldean = "clod breakers"
• a Chaldaean or inhabitant of Chaldaea
• by implication, a Magian or professional astrologer

1) the inhabitants of Chaldea, living on the lower Euphrates and Tigris
2) those persons considered the wisest in the land (by extension)

Extended Information

group of: כַּשְׂדִּי

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

• 1) a territory in lower Mesopotamia bordering on the Persian Gulf

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎כַּשְׂדָּ֑י‎ proper name, of a people Chaldean (see Biblical Hebrew ‎כַשְׂדִּים‎); — absolute ‎׳‎‎כ‎ Dan 2:10 emphatic ‎כשדיא‎ Dan 5:30 Kt (Qr ‎כַּשְׂדָּאָה‎), ‎כסדיא‎ Ezra 5:12 Kt (Qr ‎כַּסְדָּאָה‎); plural absolute ‎כַּשְׂדָּאִין‎ Ezra 3:8; Ezra 5:11, emphatic ‎כשדיא‎ Kt, ‎כַּשְׂדָּאֵי‎ Qr, Dan 2:5; Dan 2:10; Dan 4:4*; Dan 5:7 —

1. Chaldean By race Dan 3:8; Dan 5:30; Ezra 5:12.

2. as learned, of the class of Magi (Biblical Hebrew ‎׳‎‎כ‎ 1 c), Dan 2:5; Dan 2:10 (twice in verse); Dan 4:4*; Dan 5:7; Dan 5:11.

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