chaldaea   (TTS Sound)

The noun chaldaea has 2 senses

• Chaldea, Chaldaea -- (an ancient region of Mesopotamia lying between the Euphrates delta and the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Desert; settled in 1000 BC and destroyed by the Persians in 539 BC; reached the height of its power under Nebuchadnezzar II)


• Babylonia, Chaldaea, Chaldea -- (an ancient kingdom in southern Mesopotamia; Babylonia conquered Israel in the 6th century BC and exiled the Jews to Babylon (where Daniel became a counselor to the king))