Kasday means “Chaldean” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G3779 — houto (“what”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H3779 כַּשׂדַּי (Kasday) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. Kasday (kas-dah'-ee) n-m. 1. a Chaldaean or inhabitant of Chaldaea 2. (by implication) a Magian or professional astrologer It has 7 linked Bible usages across 1 book. Visible English usage signals include chaldeans, astrologers, and astrologer. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
Kasday (kas-dah'-ee) n-m. 1. a Chaldaean or inhabitant of Chaldaea 2. (by implication) a Magian or professional astrologer [(Aramaic) corresponding to H3778] KJV: Chaldean. Root(s): H3778
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Chaldean
Usage: Group of kas.di (כַּשְׂדִּים "Chaldea" H3778) § Chaldean = "clod breakers" 1) a territory in lower Mesopotamia bordering on the Persian Gulf 2) the inhabitants of Chaldea, living on the lower Euphrates and Tigris 3) those persons considered the wisest in the land (by extension)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Kasday, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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7 indexed usages in Old Testament.
The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, 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.
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.
Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews.
First 7 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3779.
The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, 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.
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.
Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews.
Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof.
The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, 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.
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, and soothsayers;
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H3779, grouped by book.
Kasday (Strong's H3779) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "Chaldean". Kasday (kas-dah'-ee) n-m. 1. a Chaldaean or inhabitant of Chaldaea 2. (by implication) a Magian or professional astrologer
This page currently indexes 7 linked usages for Strong's H3779 across 1 book.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3779 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as chaldeans, astrologers, and astrologer. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.