hebrew #6253 - עַשְׁתֹּרֶת Ashtoreth (Ashtoreth )
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance Ashtoreth Probably for ashtrah; Ashtoreth, the Phoenician goddess of love (and increase) -- Ashtoreth. see HEBREW ashtrah Englishman's Concordance Ashtoreth=“star” 1) the principal female deity of the Phoenicians worshipped in war and fertility 1a) also ‘Ishtar’ of Assyria and ‘Astarte’ by the Greeks and Romans Part of Speech: noun proper feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: probably for H6251 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1718 Brown-Driver-Briggsעַשְׁתֹּ֫רֶתproper name, of deities±Aštœreth, < ±Ašt¹rt, ±Aštéreth (see below) (MI17עשתר כמש; Phoenician עשתרת (+ often in proper names), proper name עבד עשתר CookAcad. Jan.18, 1896 Sabean proper name, of deity עתֿתר see especially OsZMG xx (1866), 279 f. DHMib. xxxvii (1883), 376 FellSab. Gotternamen, ZMG liv (1900), 231 ff., especially 237 ff.; Assyrian Ištar; Old Aramaic, Palmyrene עתר (=עתֿתר) in proper name; in Egyptian ±astirati WMMAs.u.Eur.313; Greek Ἀστάρτη; on their Greek equivalents (e.g. Ἀφροδίτη) compare LewyFremdw. 148, 186 f, 250); — ֶֹ֯ probably artificial, to suggest בּשֶׁת, originally תַּרְתְּ-, תֶּרֶת-, compare Ištar, Ασταρτη, etc.; ׳ע1 Kings 11:5 2t.; plural תָּרוֺת- Judges 2:13 + 3t.+ רֹת- 1 Samuel 7:4; 1 Samuel 31:10 read probably singular (Dr and others); — ±Aštart, ±Aštereth (Ασταρτη, plural Ασταρται, but Judges 10:6; 1 Samuel 7:4Ασταρωθ), ancient Semitic goddess (with male counterpart in Moabite, Sabean and apparently Phoenician); Phoenician deity, עשׁתרת אֱלֹהֵי צִדֹנִים1 Kings 11:5,33, ׳שִׁקֻּץ צ׳ע2 Kings 23:13; so probably ׳בֵּית ע1 Samuel 31:10 (reading singular; see especially Dr); elsewhere plural, of various local goddesses, called עֲשְׁתָּרוֺת (compareAssyrian ilâni u ištarat=gods and Ištars (i.e. goddesses), usually + בעל(יםׅ, as Canaanitish deities Judges 2:13; Judges 10:6; 1 Samuel 7:4; 1 Samuel 12:10; "" אֱלֹהֵי הַנֵּכָר1 Samuel 7:3. — See especially DrAshtoreth in HastDB; on Išitar JastrRel. Babylonian passive especially 202 f.; on `Athtar BaeRel. 117 f; on Phoenician on `Aštart PietschmGeschichte. Phön. 184 f.; on ±Ashtoreth BartonJBL x (1891), 73 ff. GFMEncy. Bib. Englishman's Concordance (References)Strong's Hebrew: 6253. עַשְׁתֹּ֫רֶת (Ashtoreth) — 3 Occurrences1 Kings 11:5 1 Kings 11:33 2 Kings 23:13 |