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- proper noun Plural form of
Chaldean .
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Examples
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Ur of the Chaldees was a great and representative centre in its day.
Men in the Making Ambrose Shepherd
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A still smaller body of Catholics of the same spiritual ancestry and the same liturgical rite are called Chaldees and live in the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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"When Chaldea was first colonized, or at any rate when the seat of empire was first established there, the emporium of trade seems to have been at Ur of the Chaldees, which is now 150 miles from the sea, the Persian Gulf having retired nearly that distance before the sediment brought down by the Euphrates and Tigris."
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Babylonians, while the Chaldees were a tribe who lived on the shores of the Persian Gulf, and did not become a part of the
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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Written probably when, after having repulsed the Egyptians who brought succors to the Jews (Jer 37: 5-8; 2Ki 24: 7), the Chaldees were a second time advancing against Jerusalem, but were not yet closely besieging it
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Penfield, “Ur of the Chaldees and the Influence of Abraham on the History of Medicine,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 19 1946: 140.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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The archaeologist C. L. Woolley had discovered under the ruins of the city of Ur of the Chaldees, halfway between Baghdad and the Persian Gulf, a layer of river sediment three meters thick.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Penfield, “Ur of the Chaldees and the Influence of Abraham on the History of Medicine,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 19 1946: 140.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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The archaeologist C. L. Woolley had discovered under the ruins of the city of Ur of the Chaldees, halfway between Baghdad and the Persian Gulf, a layer of river sediment three meters thick.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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C. L. Woolley, Ur of the Chaldees New York: Norton, 1965, 29.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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