Strong's #3778: Kasdiy (pronounced kas-dee')
(occasionally with enclitic) Kasdiymah {kas-dee'- maw}; towards the Kasdites:--into Chaldea), patronymically from 3777 (only in the plural); a Kasdite, or descendant of Kesed; by implication, a Chaldaean (as if so descended); also an astrologer (as if proverbial of that people:--Chaldeans, Chaldees, inhabitants of Chaldea.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ּּׂ / ּּׂ
kaśdı̂y / kaśdı̂ymâh
Chaldea or Chaldeans = "clod-breakers"
1) a territory in lower Mesopotamia bordering on the Persian Gulf (noun proper locative)
2) the inhabitants of Chaldea, living on the lower Euphrates and Tigris (noun proper masculine)
3) those persons considered the wisest in the land (by extension) (noun proper masculine)
Part of Speech: see above in Definition
Usage:
This word is used 81 times:
Genesis 11:28: "Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees."
Genesis 11:31: "and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan;"
Genesis 15:7: "that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, thee this"
2 Kings 24:2: "sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands"
2 Kings 25:4: "is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went"
2 Kings 25:5: "And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho:"
2 Kings 25:10: "And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls"
2 Kings 25:13: "was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass"
2 Kings 25:24: "unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: in the land, and serve"
2 Kings 25:25: "Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with"
2 Kings 25:26: "for they were afraid of the Chaldees."
2 Chronicles 31:14: "And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, was over the freewill offerings"
2 Chronicles 36:17: "upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword"
Nehemiah 9:7: "Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;"
Job 1:17: "there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made bands, and fell"
Isaiah 13:19: "the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God"
Isaiah 23:13: "Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian"
Isaiah 43:14: "and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships."
Isaiah 47:1: "there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called"
Isaiah 47:5: "and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no be called,"
Isaiah 48:14: "his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans."
Isaiah 48:20: "Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing"
Jeremiah 21:4: "against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without"
Jeremiah 21:9: "but he that goeth out, to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life"
Jeremiah 22:25: "of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans."
Jeremiah 24:5: "this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good."
Jeremiah 25:12: "the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations."
Jeremiah 32:4: "shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but"
Jeremiah 32:5: "though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper."
Jeremiah 32:24: "it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because"
Jeremiah 32:25: "for the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans."
Jeremiah 32:28: "this into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,"
Jeremiah 32:29: " And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire"
Jeremiah 32:43: "man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans."
Jeremiah 33:5: "They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men,"
Jeremiah 35:11: "to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army"
Jeremiah 37:5: "army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem"
Jeremiah 37:8: " And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn"
Jeremiah 37:9: "not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans from"
Jeremiah 37:10: "ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against but wounded"
Jeremiah 37:11: "And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear"
Jeremiah 37:13: "Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans."
Jeremiah 37:14: "I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened to him: so Irijah"
Jeremiah 38:2: "and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey,"
Jeremiah 38:18: "be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not"
Jeremiah 38:19: "that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock"
Jeremiah 38:23: "thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not out of their hand,"
Jeremiah 39:5: " But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains"
Jeremiah 39:8: " And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down"
Jeremiah 40:9: "not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve"
