Daniel 5:30:6Dan.5.30.W6TAB
כשדיא
khasadia
“Chaldean”
- Transliteration
- kha-sa-DI-a
- Extended
- khah-sah-DEE-ah
- IPA
- /xas.diˈaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- Chaldean
Alphabet Analysis
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
kha-sa-DI-a
- phraseyour reading level
mal-KA kha-sa-DI-a kha-sa-da-A
- sentence
BEH be-LEEL-ya ke-TIL be-la-sha-TSAR mal-KA kha-sa-DI-a kha-sa-da-A
Exegesis
The construct chain kash-di-ya {כשדיא | kaš-dî-yā} links Belshazzar to his people, and the emphatic absolute kash-da-ah {כַשְׂדָּאָֽה | kaš-dā-ʾāh} reinforces his ethnic identity. The translation preserves the original locative–verb–subject order to maintain immediacy while rendering into a subject–verb–object sequence in English.
Root and etymology
Rootkaf–shin–dalet
“Chaldean”
In context — Daniel 5:30
In that night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was killed.
About this coordinate
Daniel 5:30:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Daniel 5:30, so the Hebrew word כשדיא (khasadia) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Dan.5.30.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Dan.5.30.W6.S1) and character.