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Lexicon :: Strong's H3779 - kaśday

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כַּשְׂדַּי
Transliteration
kaśday
Pronunciation
kas-dah'-ee
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Part of Speech
masculine patrial noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

כַּשְׂדַּי Kasday, kas-dah'-ee; (Aramaic) corresponding to H3778; a Chaldaean or inhabitant of Chaldaea; by implication, a Magian or professional astrologer:—Chaldean.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x

The KJV translates Strong's H3779 in the following manner: Chaldean (8x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x
The KJV translates Strong's H3779 in the following manner: Chaldean (8x).

  1. Chaldean = "clod breakers"

    1. the inhabitants of Chaldea, living on the lower Euphrates and Tigris

    2. those persons considered the wisest in the land (by extension)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כַּשְׂדַּי Kasday, kas-dah'-ee; (Aramaic) corresponding to H3778; a Chaldaean or inhabitant of Chaldaea; by implication, a Magian or professional astrologer:—Chaldean.
STRONGS H3779: Abbreviations

Biblical Aramaic

† כַּשְׂדָּ֑י proper name, of a people Chaldean (see Biblical Hebrew H3778 כַּשְׂדִּים); — absolute כ׳ Daniel 2:10; emphatic כשדיא Daniel 5:30 Kt (Qr כַּשְׂדָּאָה), כסדיא [H3679 Ezra 5:12] Kt (Qr כַּסְדָּאָה); plural absolute כַּשְׂדָּאִין Daniel 3:8; Daniel 5:11, emphatic כשדיא Kt, כַּשְׂדָּאֵי Qr, Daniel 2:5, Daniel 2:10; Daniel 4:4 [Daniel 4:7]; Daniel 5:7; —
1. Chaldean by race Daniel 3:8; Daniel 5:30; [H3679 Ezra 5:12].
2. as learned, of the class of Magi (Biblical Hebrew כ׳ 1 c), Daniel 2:5, Daniel 2:10 (twice in verse); Daniel 4:4 [Daniel 4:7]; Daniel 5:7, Dan 5:11.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Daniel

2:5; 2:5; 2:10; 2:10; 2:10; 3:8; 3:8; 4:7; 4:7; 5:7; 5:7; 5:11; 5:11; 5:30; 5:30

H3779

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3779 matches the Hebrew כַּשְׂדַּי (kaśday),
which occurs 13 times in 7 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:5 - The king replied to the astrologers, “This is what I have firmly decided: If you do not tell me what my dream was and interpret it, I will have you cut into pieces and your houses turned into piles of rubble.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:10 - The astrologers answered the king, “There is no one on earth who can do what the king asks! No king, however great and mighty, has ever asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or astrologer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:8 - At this time some astrologers[fn] came forward and denounced the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:7 - When the magicians, enchanters, astrologers[fn] and diviners came, I told them the dream, but they could not interpret it for me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:7 - The king summoned the enchanters, astrologers[fn] and diviners. Then he said to these wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing and tells me what it means will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck, and he will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:11 - There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods in him. In the time of your father he was found to have insight and intelligence and wisdom like that of the gods. Your father, King Nebuchadnezzar, appointed him chief of the magicians, enchanters, astrologers and diviners.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:30 - That very night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians,[fn] was slain,
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