Definition of Chaldaea

1. Noun. An ancient region of Mesopotamia lying between the Euphrates delta and the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Desert; settled in 1000 BC and destroyed by the Persians in 539 BC; reached the height of its power under Nebuchadnezzar II.


2. Noun. An ancient kingdom in southern Mesopotamia; Babylonia conquered Israel in the 6th century BC and exiled the Jews to Babylon (where Daniel became a counselor to the king).
Exact synonyms: Babylonia, Chaldea
Geographical relationships: Battle Of Cunaxa, Cunaxa
Generic synonyms: Geographic Area, Geographic Region, Geographical Area, Geographical Region
Group relationships: Al-iraq, Irak, Iraq, Republic Of Iraq, Mesopotamia
Geographical relationships: Babylon
Terms within: Sumer
Derivative terms: Chaldaean, Chaldean

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chaldaea

Chaim Weizmann
Chairboy
Chait
Chakavian
Chalan Beel
Chalca
Chalcedon
Chalcedonian
Chalcedonians
Chalcese
Chalchese
Chalcidae
Chalcididae
Chalcis
Chalcostigma
Chaldaea
Chaldaean
Chaldaic
Chaldaics
Chaldaism
Chaldaisms
Chaldea
Chaldean
Chaldean Catholic Church
Chaldeans
Chaldee
Chaldees
Chaldæa
Chaldæan
Chaldæans

Literary usage of Chaldaea

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Literature of Theology: A Classified Bibliography of Theological and General by John Fletcher Hurst (1896)
"LOFTUS, WILLIAM K. Travels in chaldaea and Susiana. Lond. ... History of Art in chaldaea and Assyria ; Translated and Edited by Walter Armstrong. ..."

2. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1897)
"In both passages the correct reading is Chesed, ie chaldaea. We are thus relieved from the necessity of appealing to Armenian for an explanation of -shad, ..."

3. A History of Ancient Sculpture by Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell (1883)
"To the south, in ancient chaldaea, or Babylonia, ... It is to the vast alluvial plain of chaldaea in the south, that we must look for the oldest monuments. ..."

4. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"The returne of the Author by the way of Persia. Susiana, chaldaea, Assyria, and Arabia. ... chaldaea ..."

5. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez (1884)
"THE primitive civilization of chaldaea, like that of Egypt, was cradled in the lower districts of a great alluvial basin, in which the soil was stolen from ..."

6. The Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament by Eberhard Schrader, Owen Charles Whitehouse (1885)
"These inscriptions are cognizant of a land chaldaea (mat) Kaldu, Ka 1 di situated entirely in Babylonia as far as the Persian Gulf (comp. ..."

7. The Student's Manual of Oriental History: A Manual of the Ancient History of by Elisabeth Chevallier, François Lenormant (1871)
"I. THE various populations residing together on the soil of Babylonia and chaldaea must at first have lived in separation from each other. ..."

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