עַשְׁתֹּרֶת
ʻAshtôreth · H6253 · Hebrew · proper noun · 9 occurrences
Person
Meanings
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Astarte, Ashtoreth
Phoenician goddess of love and fertility; consort of Baal
ExamplesJudges 2:13 They abandoned the LORD and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
Judges 10:6 Then the sons of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the sons of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; so they abandoned the LORD and did not serve Him.
1 Samuel 7:3 Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your heart, then remove the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to the LORD and serve Him alone; and He will save you from the hand of the Philistines.”
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
Named alongside itApposition
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- אֱלֹהִיםGod, gods 2
- שִׁקּוּץdetestable thing, abomination 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- עָבַדto serve, to work 2
- סוּרto turn aside, to depart, to remove 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- לto/for 3
- אַחַרafter, behind 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בַּיִתhouse, household 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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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Names of Deities003001004
- עַשְׁתֹּרֶת names Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians whom Solomon and later Israelites are condemned for worshiping.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6253. Ashtoreth עַשְׁתֹּ֫רֶת proper name, of deities ±Aštœreth, < ±Ašt¹rt, ±Aštéreth…
עַשְׁתֹּ֫רֶת proper name, of deities ±Aštœreth, < ±Ašt¹rt, ±Aštéreth (see below) (MI17 כמש עשתר; Phoenician עשתרת (+ often in proper names), proper name עשתר עבד 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.; ׳ע 1Ki 11:5 1Ki 11:2t.; plural תָּרוֺת- Jdg 2:13 + 3t.+ רֹת- 1Sa 7:4; 1Sa 31:10 read probably singular (Dr and others); — ±Aštart, ±Aštereth (Ασταρτη, plural Ασταρται, but Jdg 10:6; 1Sa 7:4 Ασταρωθ), ancient Semitic goddess (with male counterpart in Moabite, Sabean and apparently Phoenician); Phoenician deity, צִדֹנִים אֱלֹהֵי עשׁתרת 1Ki 11:5, 1Ki 11:33, ׳ע צ ׳שִׁקֻּץ 2Ki 23:13; so probably ע ׳בֵּית 1Sa 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 Jdg 2:13; Jdg 10:6; 1Sa 7:4; 1Sa 12:10; || הַנֵּכָר אֱלֹהֵי 1Sa 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.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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