Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H6253: עַשְׁתֹּרֶת

ʻAshtôreth · pronounced ash-to'reth · “Ashtoreth”

Definition

Ashtoreth, the Phoenician goddess of love (and increase)

KJV translates it as: Ashtoreth.

Word origin: probably for H6251 (עַשְׁתְּרָה);

Extended definition

A female deity in the time of the Old Testament, first mentioned at 1Ki.11.5, also known as Astarte
§ Ashtoreth = "star"
the principal female deity of the Phoenicians worshipped in war and fertility
1a) also 'Ishtar' of Assyria and 'Astarte' by the Greeks and Romans

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H6253 is translated

  • astarte ×3

Bible verses with H6253 (ʻAshtôreth)

ʻashtôreth appears in 3 verses.

  • 1 Kings 11:5

    For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

  • 1 Kings 11:33

    Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.

  • 2 Kings 23:13

    And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.