Kasday — H3779

Definition

masculine patronymic noun

a Chaldaean or inhabitant of Chaldaea; by implication, a Magian or professional astrologer

1. Chaldean = "clod breakers"
2. the inhabitants of Chaldea, living on the lower Euphrates and Tigris
3. those persons considered the wisest in the land (by extension)

Usually translated as

Chaldean

Origin

(Aramaic) corresponding to H3778

• Kasdîy (H3778)

Occurrences

Kasday occurs 8 times in 7 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Daniel (7)

• Daniel 2:5 — The king answered and said to the Chaldeans (לְכַשְׂדָּאֵ֔י), The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.
• Daniel 2:10 — The Chaldeans (כַשְׂדָּאֵ֤י) answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.
• Daniel 2:10 — The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean (וְכַשְׂדָּֽי).
• Daniel 3:8 — Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans (כַּשְׂדָּאִ֑ין) came near, and accused the Jews.
• Daniel 4:7 — Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans (כַּשְׂדָּאֵ֖י), and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof.
• Daniel 5:7 — The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans (כַּשְׂדָּאֵ֖י), and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
• Daniel 5:11 — There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans (כַּשְׂדָּאִין֙), and soothsayers;
• Daniel 5:30 — In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans (כַשְׂדָּאָֽה) slain.