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:
Jeremiah 40:10: "I will dwell at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans, which will come"
Jeremiah 41:3: "him, even with at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, and the men"
Jeremiah 41:18: "Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because"
Jeremiah 43:3: "setteth thee on against us, for to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might put us to death, and carry us away captives"
Jeremiah 50:1: "Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet."
Jeremiah 50:8: "out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats"
Jeremiah 50:10: " And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 50:25: "GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans."
Jeremiah 50:35: "A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon,"
Jeremiah 50:45: "he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock"
Jeremiah 51:4: "Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets."
Jeremiah 51:24: "unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil"
Jeremiah 51:35: "and my blood the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say."
Jeremiah 51:54: "cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:"
Jeremiah 52:7: "which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:)"
Jeremiah 52:8: "But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah"
Jeremiah 52:14: "And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, broke down"
Jeremiah 52:17: "was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke, and carried all"
Ezekiel 1:3: "the priest, the son of Buzi, of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar;"
Ezekiel 11:24: "me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to So the vision that"
Ezekiel 12:13: "and I will bring him to Babylon of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there."
Ezekiel 16:29: "in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet satisfied herewith."
Ezekiel 23:14: "portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,"
Ezekiel 23:15: "after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:"
Ezekiel 23:16: "them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea."
Ezekiel 23:23: "The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all"
Daniel 1:4: "in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans."
Daniel 2:2: "the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to show his dreams. So they came"
Daniel 2:4: "Then spoke the Chaldeans to the king in Syriac, O king, live forever: tell"
Daniel 9:1: "which over the realm of the Chaldeans;"
Habakkuk 1:6: "lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation,"
