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( ×åëåïýä v. r. ×åëåïýë , Vulg. omits, old Lat. ver. Chelleuth, Syr. "Chaldaeans"). "Many nations of the sons of Chelod" were among those who obeyed the summons of Nabuchodonosor to his war with Arphaxad (Jdt_1:6). The word is apparently corrupt (see Fritzsche, Exeg. Handb. in loc.). Simonis suggests ×áëώí , i.e. CALNEH, perh. Ctesiphon. Ewald (Gesch. Isr. III, 2:543) conjectures it to be a nickname for the Syrians, "'sons of the mole" ( çֹìֵø , choled´).