Strong's #6253: `Ashtoreth (pronounced ash-to'reth)

probably for 6251; Ashtoreth, the Phoenician goddess of love (and increase):--Ashtoreth.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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‛ashtôreth

Ashtoreth = "star"

1) the principal female deity of the Phoenicians worshipped in war and fertility

1a) also ' Ishtar' of Assyria and ' Astarte' by the Greeks and Romans

Part of Speech: noun proper feminine

Relation: probably for H6251

Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

 

1 Kings 11:5: "For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom"
1 Kings 11:33: "that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god"
2 Kings 23:13: "which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians,"