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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).

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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