(occasionally with enclitic) Kasdiymah {kas-dee'- maw}; towards the Kasdites:--into Chaldea), patronymically from 3777 (only in the plural); a Kasdite, or descendant of Kesed; by implication, a Chaldaean (as if so descended); also an astrologer (as if proverbial of that people:--Chaldeans, Chaldees, inhabitants of Chaldea.
Chaldea or Chaldeans = "clod-breakers" n pr loc
- a territory in lower Mesopotamia bordering on the Persian Gulf n pr m
- the inhabitants of Chaldea, living on the lower Euphrates and Tigris
- those persons considered the wisest in the land (by extension)
