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单词 Chaldee
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Definition of Chaldee in English:

Chaldee

nounˈkaldiːkalˈdiːˈkaldē
  • 1mass noun The language of the ancient Chaldeans.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He was dismayed to find, in doing the latter, that translators to the various languages had repeated errors made by the Greek translators of the Hebrew or Chaldee text.
    • We are looking for an answer that will be easily verified by the international reader without the need to be an expert in Hebrew, Greek or Chaldee.
    • He adhered to the Biblical account of the origin of languages, claiming that all languages derived from ‘Chaldee’.
    • It was said that Lancelot Andrewes knew Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic, and 15 modern languages.
    1. 1.1dated The Aramaic language as used in some books of the Old Testament.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • For many years he read the Old Testament in Hebrew and Chaldee and the New Testament in Greek, so as to arrive at their meaning from ancient writers themselves alone.
      • The Hebrew language is the language of the Hebrew nation, and that in which the Old Testament is written, with the exception of a few portions in Chaldee.
      • Every one who is acquainted with the rudiments of the Hebrew and Chaldee languages, must know that God, in the holy Writings, very often spoke of Himself in the plural.
  • 2A native of ancient Chaldea.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Contrary to Gibson, I don't find that the ‘me teacher, you student’ arrangement that goes back at least 5000 years to Ur of the Chaldees is insufferably arrogant.
    • The extent to which this grammatical form suggests a pluperfect is disputed among Hebrew grammarians. The verse, however, suggests that it was said while Abram was still in the land of his birth, that is, Ur of the Chaldees.
    • Up to the time of the tower of Babel and the call of Abram from Ur of the Chaldees, there were just nations, or Gentiles as later called.
    • But Abraham was born in Mesopotamia, in particular in a bustling place called Ur Kasdim, or Ur of the Chaldees, which has been excavated by archeologists in today's Iraq.
    • Even in the twentieth century, Leonard Woolley referred to his excavations at Warka by the Biblical name of Ur of the Chaldees.
    • How I myself longed for a visit to Ur of the Chaldees - what decadence they must have had in their idolatrous blossom.
    • Among the earliest travellers was Abraham who, around 2000BC, emigrated with his family from Ur of the Chaldees (in present-day Iraq) to Canaan, sojourning for a while in Harran.
    • And He said unto him, I am The Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
    • Indeed, the overwhelming question that the Catholic Church had to confront in the last century - and which it wrestled with at the Second Vatican Council - is whether the church itself has now become an Ur of the Chaldees in the modern world.
    • Kabbalah clearly goes back to the ancient Middle East: pre-Babylonian; pre-Ur of the Chaldees.

Origin

From Latin Chaldaei 'Chaldeans', from Greek Khaldaioi, from Khaldaia (see Chaldea).

Rhymes

alcalde, Fittipaldi, Vivaldi
 
 

Definition of Chaldee in US English:

Chaldee

nounˈkaldē
  • 1The Semitic language of the ancient Chaldeans.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He was dismayed to find, in doing the latter, that translators to the various languages had repeated errors made by the Greek translators of the Hebrew or Chaldee text.
    • He adhered to the Biblical account of the origin of languages, claiming that all languages derived from ‘Chaldee’.
    • We are looking for an answer that will be easily verified by the international reader without the need to be an expert in Hebrew, Greek or Chaldee.
    • It was said that Lancelot Andrewes knew Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic, and 15 modern languages.
    1. 1.1dated The Aramaic language as used in some books of the Old Testament.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • For many years he read the Old Testament in Hebrew and Chaldee and the New Testament in Greek, so as to arrive at their meaning from ancient writers themselves alone.
      • Every one who is acquainted with the rudiments of the Hebrew and Chaldee languages, must know that God, in the holy Writings, very often spoke of Himself in the plural.
      • The Hebrew language is the language of the Hebrew nation, and that in which the Old Testament is written, with the exception of a few portions in Chaldee.
  • 2A native of ancient Chaldea.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Indeed, the overwhelming question that the Catholic Church had to confront in the last century - and which it wrestled with at the Second Vatican Council - is whether the church itself has now become an Ur of the Chaldees in the modern world.
    • Kabbalah clearly goes back to the ancient Middle East: pre-Babylonian; pre-Ur of the Chaldees.
    • Among the earliest travellers was Abraham who, around 2000BC, emigrated with his family from Ur of the Chaldees (in present-day Iraq) to Canaan, sojourning for a while in Harran.
    • Even in the twentieth century, Leonard Woolley referred to his excavations at Warka by the Biblical name of Ur of the Chaldees.
    • How I myself longed for a visit to Ur of the Chaldees - what decadence they must have had in their idolatrous blossom.
    • The extent to which this grammatical form suggests a pluperfect is disputed among Hebrew grammarians. The verse, however, suggests that it was said while Abram was still in the land of his birth, that is, Ur of the Chaldees.
    • Up to the time of the tower of Babel and the call of Abram from Ur of the Chaldees, there were just nations, or Gentiles as later called.
    • Contrary to Gibson, I don't find that the ‘me teacher, you student’ arrangement that goes back at least 5000 years to Ur of the Chaldees is insufferably arrogant.
    • And He said unto him, I am The Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
    • But Abraham was born in Mesopotamia, in particular in a bustling place called Ur Kasdim, or Ur of the Chaldees, which has been excavated by archeologists in today's Iraq.

Origin

From Latin Chaldaei ‘Chaldeans’, from Greek Khaldaioi, from Khaldaia (see Chaldea).

 
 
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