Bible word study

Kasdiy (Strong’s H3778): Meaning in the Bible

Kasdiy (כַּשְׂדִּי) is the Hebrew (proper name) word numbered H3778 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as a Kasdite, or descendant of Kesed; by implication, a Chaldaean (as if so descended); also an astrologer (as if proverbial of that people. In the King James Bible it is translated Chaldeans, Chaldees, inhabitants of Chaldea..

• Original wordכַּשְׂדִּי
• TransliterationKasdîy
• Pronunciationkas-dee'
• Part of speechproper noun (masculine) (n-pr-loc n-pr-m)
• Strong’s numberH3778
• LanguageHebrew (proper name)

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. (occasionally with enclitic) כַּשְׂדִּימָה; towards the Kasdites into Chaldea), patronymically from H3777 (only in the plural);

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Kasdiy appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Kasdiy (H3778) stands behind 80 English renderings in 80 verses across 10 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Jeremiah (46), 2 Kings (8), Ezekiel (8).

How the King James Bible renders Kasdiy, by count

• chaldeans59 of 80 (74 percent)
• chaldees14 of 80 (18 percent)
• chaldea7 of 80 (9 percent)

Three places to read Kasdiy

• Genesis 11:28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
• Jeremiah 32:4 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;
• Jeremiah 50:1 The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Kasdiy in the original Hebrew (proper name) lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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