עַשְׁתֹּרֶתʻAshtôreth
proper name [of deities]: ±Aštœreth, < ±Ašt¹rt, ±Aštéreth, ancient Semitic goddess (1 Kings 11:5; Judges 2:13; 1 Samuel 7:4; 1 Samuel 31:10; Judges 10:6)
Pronunciation: ash-to'reth · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6253
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- 1 Kings 11:5 Solomon worshiped Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molech, the detestable god of the Ammonites.
- 1 Kings 11:33 For Solomon has abandoned me and worshiped Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians; Chemosh, the god of Moab; and Molech, the god of the Ammonites. He has not followed my ways and done what is pleasing in my sight. He has not obeyed my decrees and regulations as David his father did.
- 2 Kings 23:13 The king also desecrated the pagan shrines east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, where King Solomon of Israel had built shrines for Ashtoreth, the detestable goddess of the Sidonians; and for Chemosh, the detestable god of the Moabites; and for Molech, the vile god of the Ammonites.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).