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Definition of Ashtoreth
1. Noun. An ancient Phoenician goddess of love and fertility; the Phoenician counterpart to Ishtar.
Geographical relationships: Phenicia, Phoenicia
Generic synonyms: Semitic Deity
Definition of Ashtoreth
1. n. The principal female divinity of the Phœnicians, as Baal was the principal male divinity.
Definition of Ashtoreth
1. Proper noun. (alternative form of Astarte) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Ashtoreth
1. The principal female divinity of the Phoenicians, as Baal was the principal male divinity. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ashtoreth
Literary usage of Ashtoreth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Word by Harold Waldwin Percival (1917)
"ashtoreth By JH Davies ASTARTE or ashtoreth, the Queen of Heaven, ... The votaries
of ashtoreth did not have any statues or images of ashtoreth the Goddess, ..."
2. Notes on the Hebrew text of the books of Samuel: With an Introduction on by Samuel Rolles Driver (1890)
"In Sidon 'ashtoreth appears to have been the presiding goddess (cf. i Ki. ...
On the worship of'ashtoreth among the Philistines, at Ashqelon, see on 31, ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"ashtoreth had been combined with that of the baals, or rather absorbed into it,
doubtless helped toward ... ashtoreth. The Cult in Palestine and Worship. ..."
4. The Holy Land by William Hepworth Dixon (1865)
"In the days of Herod the Great, as many deities fought for supremacy in Galilee
as fight in the Lebanon now; ashtoreth ruling over the Sidonians, ..."
5. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology by Society of Biblical Archaeology (1891)
"... W., on Tuesday, 7th April, 1891, at 8 pm, when the following papers will be
read :— J. Pollard.—"On the Baal and ashtoreth Altar, discovered at ..."
6. Scripture manners and customs by Mary Fawler Maude (1862)
"ashtoreth. Along with Baal—the representative of the sun, the lord of creation—the
Canaanites associated the worship of a female deity named ashtoreth or ..."
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