This is the name of Ashtoreth: A Syrian goddess of fertility and war.
Definition
probably for H6251; Ashtoreth, the Phoenician goddess of love (and increase)
Traditional renderings: Ashtoreth.
Traditional renderings: Ashtoreth.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
3 total
- 1 Kings 11:5עַשְׁתֹּ֔רֶת · AshtorethSolomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
- 1 Kings 11:33לְעַשְׁתֹּרֶת֮ · AshtorethFor 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 23:13לְעַשְׁתֹּ֣רֶת׀ · for AshtorethThe 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.