Chaldea meaning

kăl-dēə
An ancient kingdom of southern Mesopotamia. Founded c. 1000 bc , it eventually came to dominate Babylonia, reaching the height of its power under Nebuchadnezzar II. The Chaldean empire was destroyed by Persians in 539 bc .
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(place) Ancient region along the lower courses of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: S part of Babylonia.
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(place) Babylonia.
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A nation in the southern portion of Babylonia, Lower Mesopotamia, lying chiefly on the right bank of the Euphrates, but commonly used to refer to the whole of the Mesopotamian plain.
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Origin of chaldea

  • From Ancient Greek Χαλδαία (Khaldaia).

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Chaldea Sentence Examples

  • I, ^p ?5, Leb-Kamai (" the heart of them that rise up against me "), is written for e' w:, Chaldea, by the same rule.

  • - The architecture of these palaces is exhaustively treated in Ferguson's Palaces of Nineveh and Persepolis Restored, and in Perrot and Chipiez, Art in Chaldea and Assyria.

  • The prominence given to Edom, and the fact that Chaldea is not mentioned at all, make it probable that the passage was not written in Babylonia.

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