כַּשְׂדִּים

kas.diChaldea
hebrewOld TestamentName of a people group80 occurrences10 books80 verses
This word comes from the name of Chaldea.

Definition

(occasionally with enclitic) כַּשְׂדִּימָה; 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
Traditional renderings: Chaldeans, Chaldees, inhabitants of Chaldea.

Glossary entries

Chaldea, Chaldeans

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

80 total
  1. Genesis 11:28כַּשְׂדִּֽים׃ · of the Chaldeans
    During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
  2. Genesis 11:31כַּשְׂדִּ֗ים · of the Chaldeans
    And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.
  3. Genesis 15:7כַּשְׂדִּ֔ים · of the Chaldeans
    The LORD also told him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
  4. 2 Kings 24:2כַשְׂדִּים֩ · Chaldean
    And the LORD sent Chaldean, Aramean, Moabite, and Ammonite raiders against Jehoiakim in order to destroy Judah, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servants the prophets.
  5. 2 Kings 25:4וְכַשְׂדִּ֥ים · and though the Chaldeans
    Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,
  6. 2 Kings 25:5כַּשְׂדִּים֙ · of the Chaldeans
    …but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and his whole army deserted him.
  7. 2 Kings 25:10כַּשְׂדִּ֔ים · of the Chaldeans
    And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem.
  8. 2 Kings 25:13כַשְׂדִּ֑ים · the Chaldeans
    Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried the bronze to Babylon.
  9. 2 Kings 25:24הַכַּשְׂדִּ֑ים · of the Chaldeans
    And Gedaliah took an oath before them and their men, assuring them, “Do not be afraid of the servants of the Chaldeans. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will be well with you.”
  10. 2 Kings 25:25הַכַּשְׂדִּ֔ים · and Chaldeans
    In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down and killed Gedaliah, along with the Judeans and Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.
  11. 2 Kings 25:26כַשְׂדִּֽים׃פ · the Chaldeans
    Then all the people small and great, together with the commanders of the army, arose and fled to Egypt for fear of the Chaldeans.
  12. 2 Chronicles 36:17כַּשְׂדִּיִּים · of the Chaldeans
    So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar,
  13. Nehemiah 9:7כַּשְׂדִּ֑ים · of the Chaldeans
    You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
  14. Job 1:17כַּשְׂדִּ֞ים · The Chaldeans
    While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “The Chaldeans formed three bands, raided the camels, and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
  15. Isaiah 13:19כַּשְׂדִּ֑ים · of the Chaldeans
    And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.
  16. Isaiah 23:13כַּשְׂדִּ֗ים · Chaldeans
    Look at the land of the Chaldeans—a people now of no account. The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures; they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They brought it to ruin.
  17. Isaiah 43:14וְכַשְׂדִּ֖ים · even the Chaldeans
    Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake, I will send to Babylon and bring them all as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice.
  18. Isaiah 47:1כַּשְׂדִּ֑ים · of the Chaldeans
    “Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.
  19. Isaiah 47:5כַּשְׂדִּ֑ים · of the Chaldeans
    “Sit in silence and go into darkness, O Daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called the queen of kingdoms.
  20. Isaiah 48:14כַּשְׂדִּֽים׃ · will be against the Chaldeans
    Come together, all of you, and listen: Which of the idols has foretold these things? The LORD’s chosen ally will carry out His desire against Babylon, and His arm will be against the Chaldeans.
  21. Isaiah 48:20מִכַּשְׂדִּים֒ · from the Chaldeans
    Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! Declare it with a shout of joy, proclaim it, let it go out to the ends of the earth, saying, “The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!”
  22. Jeremiah 21:4הַכַּשְׂדִּ֔ים · and the Chaldeans
    …this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city.
  23. Jeremiah 21:9הַכַּשְׂדִּ֜ים · the Chaldeans
    Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who besiege you will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war.
  24. Jeremiah 22:25הַכַּשְׂדִּֽים׃ · and to the Chaldeans
    In fact, I will hand you over to those you dread, who want to take your life—to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to the Chaldeans.
  25. Jeremiah 24:5כַּשְׂדִּ֖ים · of the Chaldeans
    “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, so I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.
  26. Jeremiah 25:12כַּשְׂדִּ֑ים · of the Chaldeans
    But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
  27. Jeremiah 32:4הַכַּשְׂדִּ֑ים · of the Chaldeans
    Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape from the hands of the Chaldeans, but he will surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and will speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye.
  28. Jeremiah 32:5הַכַּשְׂדִּ֖ים · the Chaldeans
    He will take Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will stay until I attend to him, declares the LORD. If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not succeed.’”
  29. Jeremiah 32:24הַכַּשְׂדִּים֙ · of the Chaldeans
    See how the siege ramps are mounted against the city to capture it. And by sword and famine and plague, the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What You have spoken has happened, as You now see!
  30. Jeremiah 32:25הַכַּשְׂדִּֽים׃ · of the Chaldeans
    Yet You, O Lord GOD, have said to me, ‘Buy for yourself the field with silver and call in witnesses, even though the city has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans!’”
  31. Jeremiah 32:28הַכַּשְׂדִּ֗ים · of the Chaldeans
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hands of the Chaldeans and of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will capture it.
  32. Jeremiah 32:29הַכַּשְׂדִּ֗ים · And the Chaldeans
    And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come in, set it on fire, and burn it, along with the houses of those who provoked Me to anger by burning incense to Baal on their rooftops and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods.
  33. Jeremiah 32:43הַכַּשְׂדִּֽים׃ · of the Chaldeans
    And fields will be bought in this land about which you are saying, ‘It is a desolation, without man or beast; it has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans.’
  34. Jeremiah 33:5הַכַּשְׂדִּ֔ים · The Chaldeans
    The Chaldeans are coming to fight and to fill those places with the corpses of the men I will strike down in My anger and in My wrath. I have hidden My face from this city because of all its wickedness.
  35. Jeremiah 35:11הַכַּשְׂדִּ֔ים · of the Chaldeans
    So when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched into the land, we said: ‘Come, let us go into Jerusalem to escape the armies of the Chaldeans and the Arameans.’ So we have remained in Jerusalem.”
  36. Jeremiah 37:5הַכַּשְׂדִּ֜ים · and when the Chaldeans
    Pharaoh’s army had left Egypt, and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard the report, they withdrew from Jerusalem.
  37. Jeremiah 37:8הַכַּשְׂדִּ֔ים · Then the Chaldeans
    Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it down.
  38. Jeremiah 37:9הַכַּשְׂדִּ֑ים · The Chaldeans
    This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves by saying, ‘The Chaldeans will go away for good,’ for they will not!
  39. Jeremiah 37:10כַּשְׂדִּים֙ · of the Chaldeans
    Indeed, if you were to strike down the entire army of the Chaldeans that is fighting against you, and only wounded men remained in their tents, they would still get up and burn this city down.”
  40. Jeremiah 37:11הַכַּשְׂדִּ֔ים · When the Chaldean
    When the Chaldean army withdrew from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army,
  41. Jeremiah 37:13הַכַּשְׂדִּ֖ים · the Chaldeans
    But when he reached the Gate of Benjamin, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, seized him and said, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans!”
  42. Jeremiah 37:14הַכַּשְׂדִּ֔ים · the Chaldeans
    “That is a lie,” Jeremiah replied. “I am not deserting to the Chaldeans!” But Irijah would not listen to him; instead, he arrested Jeremiah and took him to the officials.
  43. Jeremiah 38:2הַכַּשְׂדִּים֙ · the Chaldeans
    “This is what the LORD says: Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever surrenders to the Chaldeans will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war, and he will live.
  44. Jeremiah 38:18הַכַּשְׂדִּ֔ים · of the Chaldeans
    But if you do not surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then this city will be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans. They will burn it down, and you yourself will not escape their grasp.’”
  45. Jeremiah 38:19הַכַּשְׂדִּ֔ים · the Chaldeans
    But King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have deserted to the Chaldeans, for the Chaldeans may deliver me into their hands to abuse me.”
  46. Jeremiah 38:23הַכַּשְׂדִּ֔ים · the Chaldeans
    All your wives and children will be brought out to the Chaldeans. And you yourself will not escape their grasp, for you will be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned down.”
  47. Jeremiah 39:5כַּשְׂדִּ֜ים · of the Chaldeans
    But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. They seized him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on him.
  48. Jeremiah 39:8הַכַּשְׂדִּ֖ים · The Chaldeans
    The Chaldeans set fire to the palace of the king and to the houses of the people, and they broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
  49. Jeremiah 40:9הַכַּשְׂדִּ֑ים · the Chaldeans
    Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore an oath to them and their men, assuring them, “Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.
  50. Jeremiah 40:10הַכַּשְׂדִּ֔ים · the Chaldeans
    As for me, I will stay in Mizpah to represent you before the Chaldeans who come to us. As for you, gather wine grapes, summer fruit, and oil, place them in your storage jars, and live in the cities you have taken.”