Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #1203 - בְּעֶשְׁתְּרָה Beeshterah (perhaps "house of Ashtoreth")

Original Word:	בְּעֶשְׁתְּרָה
Transliteration:	Beeshterah
Definition:	perhaps "house of Ashtoreth", a Levitical city in Manasseh
Part of Speech:	Proper Name Location
Phonetic Spelling:	(beh-esh-ter-aw')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Beeshterah

From ashtrah (as singular of Ashtarowth) with a prepositional prefix; with Ashtoreth; Beeshterah, a place East of the Jordan -- Beeshterah.

see HEBREW ashtrah

see HEBREW Ashtarowth

Englishman's Concordance

Beeshterah=“with increase”
1) a Levitical city in Manasseh, east of the Jordan; probably identical with ‘Ashtaroth’
Part of Speech: noun proper locative
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H6251 (as singular of H6252) with a prepositional prefix

Brown-Driver-Briggs

בְּעֶשְׁתְּרָהproper name, of a location (?=בֵּית עשׁתרה=house of Ashtoreth, compare below בית) a Levitical city in Manasseh Joshua 21:27;=עַשְׁתָּרוֺת1 Chronicles 6:56

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 1203. Beeshterah — 1 Occurrence
Joshua 21:27
HEB:מִגְרָשֶׁ֔הָ וְאֶֽת־ בְּעֶשְׁתְּרָ֖ה וְאֶת־ מִגְרָשֶׁ֑הָ
NAS: lands, and Be-eshterah with its pasture lands;
KJV: for the slayer; and Beeshterah with her suburbs;
INT: Bashan pasture and Be-eshterah lands cities

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