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# chaldean

«chaldean» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A person from Chaldea, the land in southern Babylonia, or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A person from Chaldea, the land in southern Babylonia, or a member of the people who ruled Babylon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chaldean/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: The Chaldeans conquered Judah and destroyed the First Temple. Tradition sees Babylon as God's tool to punish Israel's sins, and its fall as proof that God rules history.

### examples

- In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain. (Writings DAN.5.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chaldean/#x1)
- But because that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven, He gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon. (Writings EZR.5.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chaldean/#x2)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### In the corpora

- [Thus saith the LORD: Deceive not yourselves, saying: The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us; for they shall not depart.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1029/)
- [And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1031/)
- [The word that the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1331/)
- [And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1381/)
- [And she increased her harlotries; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.585/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chaldean» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chaldean/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.