Word Study · Strong's H6253 · Hebrew
עַשְׁתֹּרֶת
Ashtoreth
ash-to'reth
Strong's 1890 spelling: ʻAshtôreth
“Ashtoreth, the Phoenician goddess of love (and increase)”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Ashtoreth, the Phoenician goddess of love (and increase)
Rendered in the KJV as
Ashtoreth.
- 3occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 2 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 3inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 3 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 3
- לְעַשְׁתֹּרֶת֮1
- לְעַשְׁתֹּ֣רֶת׀1
- עַשְׁתֹּ֔רֶת1
How it is rendered · 2
- to Astarte2
- Astarte1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- preposition + proper noun (a name)2
- proper noun (a name)1
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- HR/Npt · 2
- HNpt · 1
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The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
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1 Kings2 occurrences
- 1 Kings 11:5עַשְׁתֹּ֔רֶתʾashtoretproper noun (a name)Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.here: Astarte
- 1 Kings 11:33לְעַשְׁתֹּרֶת֮leashtoretpreposition + proper noun (a name)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.here: to Astarte