noun · masculine
chaldaios
GreekΧαλδαῖος (chaldaios)
Strong’sG5466
a Chaldean
stem chaldai-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
Χαλδαῖος, -ου, ὁ
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5466 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkhal-dah'-yos
a Chaldæan (i.e. Kasdi), or native or the region of the lower Euphrates
Fromprobably of Hebrew or ();
King JamesChaldæan.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | chaldaios | chaldaiois |
| object accusative | chaldaion | chaldaioin |
| direct address vocative | chaldaior | chaldaioir |
| of, belonging to genitive | chaldaiou | chaldaioiu1×Χαλδαίων |
| to, for dative | chaldaio | chaldaioi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
chaldaio is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
chaldaioiu“Chaldeans”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Acts 7:4“Chaldeans”tote exercharatos ek gēau Chaldaioiu katoikata en Charran. kakeithen meta tem apothnēskara ton patēron autou metoikizata auton eis tan gēan houtan eis han vis nun katoikavō,So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God brought him out of that place and into this land where you are now living.