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HebrewH6253Noun

עַשְׁתֹּ֫רֶת

ash.to.ret

3Occurrences
H6253Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Ashtoreth, the Phoenician goddess of love (and increase)

probably for H6251 (עַשְׁתְּרָה);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A female deity in the time of the Old Testament, first mentioned at, 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

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N-F-T

Full Description

N:N-F-T

Occurrences

עַשְׁתֹּ֫רֶת appears 3 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Kings
2
2 Kings
1

Key Passages

1 Kings 11:5BSB

Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

1 Kings 11:33BSB

For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did.

2 Kings 23:13BSB

The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.