Word

עַשְׁתְּרָה

ʻashtᵉrâh · H6251 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

young sheep, young goat

Offspring of a sheep or goat; associated with wealth

Examples
Deuteronomy 7:13 “And He will love you, bless you, and make you numerous; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain, your new wine, and your oil, the newborn of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land which He swore to your forefathers to give you.
Deuteronomy 28:4 “Blessed will be the children of your womb, the produce of your ground, and the offspring of your animals: the newborn of your herd and the young of your flock.
Deuteronomy 28:18 “Cursed will be the children of your womb, the produce of your ground, the newborn of your herd, and the offspring of your flock.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

4 occurrences in 1 groups

צֹאןflock, small cattle, sheep and goats 4

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 1 groups

פְּרִיfruit, produce 2

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אָרַרto curse 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

שָׁאַרto remain 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 2 words

צֹאן tsôʼn · H6629 · flock, small cattle, sheep and goats: צֹאן is the common, general term for flock (sheep and goats collectively); עַשְׁתְּרָה appears to be a rarer term for flock, possibly with a more specific nuance related to increase/breeding, but both refer to flocks of small livestock
עֵדֶר ʻêder · H5739 · flock, herd, drove: עֵדֶר denotes a flock or herd as a cohesive group; like עַשְׁתְּרָה it refers to small livestock collectively, though עֵדֶר may emphasize the grouped nature of the animals

Semantic domains 1 entry

Domestic Animals001001002002: עַשְׁתְּרָה denotes the young or increase of a flock, the offspring of sheep and goats.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6251. ashtaroth II. [עַשְׁתָּרוֺת] noun plural feminine only construct in phrase נ֑ךָ…

H6251. ashtaroth
II. [עַשְׁתָּרוֺת] noun plural feminine only construct in phrase נ֑ךָ צאֶֹ עַשְׁתְּר(וֺ)ת Deu 7:13; Deu 28:4, Deu 28:18, Deu 28:51 (all || אֲלָפֶיךָ שְׁגַר) usually interpreted either as
a. = ewes (Thes) or as
b. = young (compare veneres gregis; in either case with reference to ±Aštart as goddess of fecundity; RSSemitic i. 292, 457 f., 2nd ed. 310, 476 f., adopting b, thinks one type of ±Ašt in Canaan had form of sheep, so DrDeu 7:13); compare also as name of land fertilized by dew and rain WeSkizzen iii. 170.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Domestic Animals4 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0