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title: כַּשְׂדִּים — Chaldeans · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כַּשְׂדִּים (3778), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 80 times: Chaldeans. BDB 1906: n.pr.gent. et terr. Kasdim Chaldeans, Chaldea. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כַּשְׂדִּים

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«כַּשְׂדִּים» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Chaldeans** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 80 times · **Key:** 3778 · **BDB:** כַּשְׂדִּים

### Glosses

of.\[the\].Chaldeans (29); Chaldeans (26); the.Chaldeans (11)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Chaldeans [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3778/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.gent. et terr. Kasdim Chaldeans, Chaldea [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3778/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.gent. et terr. Kasdim = Chaldeans, Chaldea, 𝔊 Χαλδαῖοι and (Je 50:10) ἡ Χαλδαία (Assyrian (mat) Kaldu, Kaldû; from earlier (Bab.) form \[Kašdu\]—š before dental becoming l, DlPar 128 f. 200 f.; Assyrian Gr. § 51, 3; Schr KGF 94 ff.; COT on Gn 11:28);— Chaldeans: people dwelling on lower Euphrates and Tigris; in n.pr.loc. אוּר כ׳ Gn 11:28 (J), v 31 (P), 15:7 (J), Ne 9:7. especially the people ruled by Nebuchadrezzar;—כ׳ Je 37:10; 39:5; Ez 23:23; 2 K 24:2; 25:4, 5, 10, 13 = Je 52:7, 8, 14, 17 (2 K 24:5, 10 = also Je 39:5, 8), 2 K 25:26; Is 13:19; 43:14; 48:14, 20; Jb 1:17; Kt כַּשְׁדִּיִּים Ez 23:14; 2 Ch 36:17; הַכּ׳ Je 21:4, 9; 22:25; 32:4, 5, 24, 25, 28, 29, 43; 33:5; 35:11; 37:5, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14; 38:2, 18, 19, 23; 39:8; 40:9, 10; 41:3, 18; 43:3; 50:35 Hb 1:6; 2 K 25:24, 25; בַּת־כ׳ Is 47:1, 5 = Babylon (in dirge); אֶרֶץ כ׳ ἡ γῆ Χαλδαίων (on locality v. Schr Dl l.c.) Je 24:5; 25:12; 50:1, 8, 25, 45; 51:4, 54; Ez 1:3; 12:3, also Is 23:13 (inauthentic, Di Che; read כְּנַעֲנִים Ew Schr, or כִּתִּים Du); סֵפֶר וּלְשׁוֹן כ׳ Dn 1:4; מַלְכוּת כ׳ 9:1. Chaldeans as learned class, skilled in interpretations Dn 2:2 (+ חַרְטֻמִּים, אַשָּׁפִים, מְכַשְּׁפִים), v 4. Chaldea, וְהָֽיְתָה כַּשְׂדִּים לְשָׁלָל Je 50:10 and Chaldea shall be despoiled; יוֹשְׁבֵי כ׳ 51:24, 35; כַּשְׂדִּים אֶרֶץ מוֹלַדְתָּם Ez 23:15; c. ה loc.; כַּשְׂדִּ֫ימָה Ez 11:24; 16:29; 23:16.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 79 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כַּשְׂדִּים» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3778/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 51:54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.54/)

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ק֥וֹל זְעָקָ֖ה מִבָּבֶ֑ל וְשֶׁ֥בֶר גָּד֖וֹל מֵאֶ֥רֶץ כַּשְׂדִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].sound of.a.cry.of.distress \[is\].from Babylon and destruction great \[is\].from the.land of.\[the\].Chaldeans

*JPS 1917:* Hark! a cry from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

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[Jeremiah 50:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.10/)

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וְהָיְתָ֥ה כַשְׂדִּ֖ים לְשָׁלָ֑ל כָּל־שֹׁלְלֶ֥יהָ יִשְׂבָּ֖עוּ נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.become Chaldea (into) plunder all \[those who\].plunder.it they.will.be.satisfied the.utterance of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And Chaldea shall be a spoil; all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD.

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