Chaldea in the Bible

Meaning: as demons, or as robbers

Exact Match

thereupon he went out of Chaldea, and dwelt in Charran: from thence, after his father's death, he removed him to this very country where you now dwell.

Thematic Bible



Then took Terah: Abram his son, and Lot his son Haran's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law his son Abram's wife. And they went with him from Ur in Chaldea, to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran and dwelled there.

And Haran died before Terah his father, in the land where he was born, at Ur in Chaldea.

And he said unto him, "I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur in Chaldea to give thee this land to possess it."


Behold, for thine example: The Chaldeans were such a people, that no man was like them, Assyria builded them: he set up his castles and palaces, and broke them down again.


For lo, I will raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and swift people: which shall go as wide as the land is, to take possession of dwelling places that be not their own.