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Lexicon :: Strong's H3778 - kaśdîmâ

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כַּשְׂדִּימָה
Transliteration
kaśdîmâ
Pronunciation
kas-dee'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Chaldea or Chaldeans = "clod-breakers"
Variant Spellings

Variant spellings for this word: כשדימה (Strongs) כשדים (Gesenius) כשדי (Strongs)

Strong’s Definitions

כַּשְׂדִּי Kasdîy, kas-dee'; (occasionally with enclitic) כַּשְׂדִּימָה Kasdîymâh; towards the Kasdites into Chaldea), patronymically from H3777 (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).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 80x

The KJV translates Strong's H3778 in the following manner: Chaldeans (59x), Chaldees (14x), Chaldea (7x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 80x
The KJV translates Strong's H3778 in the following manner: Chaldeans (59x), Chaldees (14x), Chaldea (7x).

  1. a territory in lower Mesopotamia bordering on the Persian Gulf (n pr m)

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

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

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כַּשְׂדִּי Kasdîy, kas-dee'; (occasionally with enclitic) כַּשְׂדִּימָה Kasdîymâh; towards the Kasdites into Chaldea), patronymically from H3777 (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).
STRONGS H3778: Abbreviations
† כַּשְׂדִּים proper name, of a people and territory Kasdim = Chaldeans, Chaldea, Greek Version of the LXX Χαλδαῖοι and (Jeremiah 50:10) ἡ Χαλδαία (Assyrian (mat) Kaldu, Kaldû from earlier (Babylonian) form [* Kašdu] — š before dental becoming l, DlPar 128 f.200f.; Assyrian Gr. § 51, 3; SchrKGF 94ff.; COT on Genesis 11:28); —
1. Chaldeans:
a. people dwelling on lower Euphrates and Tigris; in proper name, of a location אוּר כ׳ Genesis 11:28 (J), Genesis 11:31 (P), Genesis 15:7 (J), Nehemiah 9:7.
b. especially the people ruled by Nebuchadrezzar; — כ׳ Jeremiah 37:10; 39:5; Ezekiel 23:23; 2 Kings 24:2; 25:4, 25:5, 25:10, 25:13 = Jeremiah 52:7, 52:8, 52:14, 52:17 (2 Kings 24:5; 24:10 — Jeremiah 39:5, 8), 2 Kings 25:26; Isaiah 13:19; 43:14; 48:14,48:20; Job 1:17; Kt. כַּשְׂדִּיִּים Ezekiel 23:14; 2 Chronicles 36:17; הַכּ׳ Jeremiah 21:4, 21:9; 22:25; 32:4, 32:5, 32:24, 32:25, 32:28, 32:29, 32:43; 33:5; 35:11; 37:5, 37:8, 37:9, 37:11, 37:13,37:14; 38:2, 38:18, 38:19, 38:23; 39:8; 40:9, 40:10; 41:3, 41:18; 43:3; 50:35; Habakkuk 1:6; 2 Kings 25:24, 25:25; בַּתכֿ׳ Isaiah 47:1; 47:5 = Babylon (in dirge); אֶרֶץ כ׳ ἡ γῆ Χαλδαίων on locality see Schr Dll.c.) Jeremiah 24:5; 25:12; 50:1, 50:8, 50:25, 50:45; 51:4, 51:54; Ezekiel 1:3; 12:3, also Isaiah 23:13 (inauthentic, Di Che; read כְּנַעֲנִים Ew Schr, or כִּתִּים Du); סֵפֶר וּלְשׂוֺן כ׳ Daniel 1:4; מַלְכוּת כ׳ Daniel 9:1.
c. Chaldeans, as learned class, skilled in interpretations Daniel 2:2 (+ חַרְטֻמִּים אַשָּׁפִים מְכַשְּׁפִים), Daniel 2:4.
2. Chaldea, וְהָֽיְתָה כַּשְׂדִּים לְשָׁלָל Jeremiah 50:10 and Chaldea shall be despoiled; יוֺשְׁבֵי כ׳ Jeremiah 51:24, 51:35; כַּשְׂדִּים אֶרֶץ מוֺלַדְתָּם Ezekiel 23:15; with ה locative: כַּשְׂדִּ֫ימָה Ezekiel 11:24; 16:29; 23:16.

See related Aramaic H3779.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

11:28; 11:28; 11:31; 15:7

2 Kings

24:2; 24:5; 24:10; 25:4; 25:5; 25:10; 25:13; 25:24; 25:25; 25:26

2 Chronicles

36:17

Nehemiah

9:7

Job

1:17

Isaiah

13:19; 23:13; 43:14; 47:1; 47:5; 48:14; 48:20

Jeremiah

21:4; 21:9; 22:25; 24:5; 25:12; 32:4; 32:5; 32:24; 32:25; 32:28; 32:29; 32:43; 33:5; 35:11; 37:5; 37:8; 37:9; 37:10; 37:11; 37:13; 37:14; 38:2; 38:18; 38:19; 38:23; 39:5; 39:5; 39:8; 39:8; 40:9; 40:10; 41:3; 41:18; 43:3; 50:1; 50:8; 50:10; 50:10; 50:25; 50:35; 50:45; 51:4; 51:24; 51:35; 51:54; 52:7; 52:8; 52:14; 52:17

Ezekiel

1:3; 11:24; 12:3; 16:29; 23:14; 23:15; 23:16; 23:23

Daniel

1:4; 2:2; 2:4; 9:1

Habakkuk

1:6

H3778

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Strong's Number H3778 matches the Hebrew כַּשְׂדִּימָה (kaśdîmâ),
which occurs 82 times in 80 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 2 (Jer 41:3–Hab 1:6)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:3 - Ishmael also struck down all the Judeans who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah, and the Chaldean soldiers who happened to be there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 41:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:18 - because of the Chaldeans. For they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 43:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:3 - but Baruch the son of Neriah has set you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may kill us or take us into exile in Babylon.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:1 - The word that the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:8 - “Flee from the midst of Babylon, and go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as male goats before the flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:10 - Chaldea shall be plundered; all who plunder her shall be sated, declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:25 - The LORD has opened his armory
and brought out the weapons of his wrath,
for the Lord GOD of hosts has a work to do
in the land of the Chaldeans.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:35 - “A sword against the Chaldeans, declares the LORD,
and against the inhabitants of Babylon,
and against her officials and her wise men!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:45 - Therefore hear the plan that the LORD has made against Babylon, and the purposes that he has formed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of their flock shall be dragged away; surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:4 - They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans,
and wounded in her streets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:24 - “I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:35 - The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon,”
let the inhabitant of Zion say.
“My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”
let Jerusalem say.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:54

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:54 - “A voice! A cry from Babylon!
The noise of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 52:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:7 - Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled and went out from the city by night by the way of a gate between the two walls, by the king’s garden, and the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 52:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:8 - But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 52:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:14 - And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 52:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:17 - And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the LORD, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried all the bronze to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:3 - the word of the LORD came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the Chebar canal, and the hand of the LORD was upon him there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:24 - And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to the exiles. Then the vision that I had seen went up from me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:13 - And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare. And I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, yet he shall not see it, and he shall die there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:29 - You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:14 - But she carried her whoring further. She saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:15 - wearing belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them having the appearance of officers, a likeness of Babylonians whose native land was Chaldea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:16 - When she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:23 - the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and commanders all of them, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:4 - youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king’s palace, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:2 - Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be summoned to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:4 - Then the Chaldeans said to the king in Aramaic,[fn] “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:1 - In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, by descent a Mede, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans—

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:6 - For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans,
that bitter and hasty nation,
who march through the breadth of the earth,
to seize dwellings not their own.

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