ashtoreth in English
noun
Astarte, ancient Phoenician goddess of love fertility and war (Mythology)
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1. Clay figurines of Ashtoreth 3.
2. ASHTORETH —Canaan’s goddess of sex and war
3. He Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molech the detestable god of the Ammonites.
4. Astarte (also Ashtart, Ashtoreth) In ancient Phoenicia, the great Goddess of fertility, motherhood and war
5. Astarte/Ashtoreth is the Queen of Heaven to whom the Canaanites burned offerings and poured libations (Jeremiah 44)
6. Astarte definition: a fertility goddess worshipped by the Phoenicians : identified with Ashtoreth of the Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples
7. Although Ishtar and her counterpart Ashtoreth no longer exist, the traits that they represented —immorality and violence— are rampant.
8. It is often written Ashtoreth, particularly in Bible references to Philistine idols. The name may have been derived from that of the Assyrian goddess Ishtar.
9. One scholar offers this shocking description: “The worship of Baal, Ashtoreth, and other Canaanite gods consisted in the most extravagant orgies; their temples were centers of vice. . . .
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11. Astarte, also spelled Athtart or Ashtart, great goddess of the ancient Middle East and chief deity of Tyre, Sidon, and Elat, important Mediterranean seaports.Hebrew scholars now feel that the goddess Ashtoreth mentioned so often in the Bible is a deliberate conflation of the Greek name Astarte and the Hebrew word boshet, “shame,” indicating the Hebrews’ contempt for her cult.