What Is Chaldean in the Bible?
Person
From Chaldea, in the south of Mesopotamia; the Babylonians were also called by this name. Abraham came out of Ur of the Chaldeans.
A detail
- In Daniel: “the Chaldeans” are also the wise men at the king’s court who studied the stars.
Where it appears in the Bible
Genesis 11:31; Daniel 2:2
What the Bible says
Genesis 11:31
And Thare took Abram, his son, and Lot the son of Aran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, the wife of Abram his son, and brought them out of Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan: and they came as far as Haran, and dwelt there.
Daniel 2:2
Then the king commanded to call together the diviners and the wise men, and the magicians, and the Chaldeans: to declare to the king his dreams: so they came and stood before the king.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Genesis 11:31