Meaning of the name: as demons, or as robbers. Related names are:
Zion,
Babylon,
Jerusalem, and
Canaan. The translations of Chaldea in 62 languages of the Bible are illustrated in the
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below, from
Caldea in Spanish to
カルデア in Japanese!
And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD. (JER 50:10)
And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD. (JER 51:24)
The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. (JER 51:35)
Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me. (EZE 11:24)
Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith. (EZE 16:29)
Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity: (EZE 23:15)
And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. (EZE 23:16)