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Thoughts And Things Of The Bible --
Chaldee Language
The chaldee language was employed by the sacred writers in certain
portions of the Old Testament, viz., Dan. 2:4-7, 28; Ezra 4:8-6:18;
7:12-26; Gen. 31:46; Jer. 10:11. It is the Aramaic dialect, as it is
sometimes called, as distinguished from the Hebrew dialect. It was the
language of commerce and of social intercourse in Western Asia, and
after the Exile gradually came to be the popular language of Palestine.
It is called "Syrian" in 2 Kings 18:26. Some isolated words in
this language are preserved in the New Testament (Matt. 5:22; 6:24;
16:17; 27:46; Mark 3:17; 5:41; 7:34; 14:36; Acts 1:19; 1 Cor. 16:22).
These are specimens of the vernacular language of Palestine at that
period. The term "Hebrew" was also sometimes applied to the
Chaldee because it had become the language of the Hebrews (John 5:2;
19:20).
Derived from Easton's and Smith's Bible Dictionaries
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