noun · masculine
chaldaios
Strong’sG5466
a Chaldean
stem chaldai-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
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.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Chaldaean, Refs 5th c.BC+
II astrologer, Refs 4th c.BC+ (since the Chaldaeans were given to astrology,Refs 5th c.BC+:—Χαλδαία (i.e. γῆ), ἡ, Chaldaea, Refs 2nd c.AD+:— Χαλδαϊκός, ή, όν, Chaldaean, γράμματα Refs 2nd c.AD+; ἱστορίαι, title of work by Berosus, Refs 1st c.AD+; μέθοδος, i.e. astrology, Refs 2nd c.AD+ see entry {Χαλδαϊκοῖς}: comparative -ώτεροςRefs adverb -κῶςRefs— Χαλδαϊστί, adverb in the Chaldaean language, LXX+1st c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| 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
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
chaldaioiu“Chaldeans”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Acts 7:4tote exercharantos ek gēau Chaldaioiu katoikata en Charran. kakeithen meta tem …… Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his …