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Strong's #6252: `Ashtarowth (pronounced ash-taw-roth')

or bAshtaroth {ash-taw-roth'}; plural of 6251; Ashtaroth, the name of a Sidonian deity, and of a place East of the Jordan:--Asharoth, Astaroth. See also 1045, 6253, 6255.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ּׁ / ּׁ

‛ashtârôth

Ashtaroth or Astaroth = "star"

1) false goddesses in the Canaanite religion, usually related to fertility cult (noun proper feminine deity)

2) a city in Bashan east of the Jordan given to Manasseh (noun proper locative)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Relation: plural of H6251



Usage:

This word is used 12 times:

Deuteronomy 1:4: "of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:"
Joshua 9:10: "king of Bashan, which was at Ashtaroth."
Joshua 12:4: "which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,"
Joshua 13:12: "in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant"
Joshua 13:31: "And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan,"
Judges 2:13: "the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth."
Judges 10:6: "and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon,"
1 Samuel 7:3: "the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts"
1 Samuel 7:4: "did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only."
1 Samuel 12:10: "and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand"
1 Samuel 31:10: "his armor in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan."
1 Chronicles 6:71: "Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, and Ashtaroth with her suburbs:"









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