How to Pronounce Chaldea

What does Chaldea mean?

Chaldea means “as demons, or as robbers”.

Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.

Where was Chaldea?

The southern portion of Babylonia, Lower Mesopotamia, lying chiefly on the right bank of the Euphrates, but commonly used of the whole of the Mesopotamian plain. The Hebrew name is Kasdim, which is usually rendered “Chaldeans” (Jer. 50:10; 51:24, 35). The country so named is a vast plain formed by the deposits of the Euphrates and the Tigris, extending to about 400 miles along the course of these rivers, and about 100 miles in average breadth. “In former days the vast plains of Babylon were nourished by a complicated system of canals and water-courses, which spread over the surface of the country like a network.

Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.

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