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Definition of Ishtar
1. Noun. Babylonian and Assyrian goddess of love and fertility and war; counterpart to the Phoenician Astarte.
Definition of Ishtar
1. Proper noun. A goddess of fertility, love, sex and war. In the Babylonian pantheon, she was the divine personification of the planet Venus. Assyrian and Babylonian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the cognate northwest Semitic goddess Astarte. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ishtar
Literary usage of Ishtar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria: Its Remains, Language, History ...by Morris Jastrow by Morris Jastrow (1915)
""Lectures delivered under the Richard B. Westbrook lectureship foundation at the Wagner free institute of science, Philadelphia.""
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"To this story Tammuz, though in a subordinate position with respect to Anu, seems
to be independent, is not connected with ishtar, and with his companion is ..."
3. Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow (1911)
"It is significant that of the Powers involved in such combinations, ishtar alone
passed beyond the confines of Semite settlements and continued to exercise ..."
4. Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway (1879)
"EVEN across immemorial generations it is impossible to read without emotion the
legend of the Descent of ishtar into Hades.1 Through seven gates the goddess ..."
5. The Story of Assyria from the Rise of the Empire to the Fall of Nineveh by Zénaïde Alexeïevna Ragozin (1889)
"ishtar, on the other hand, was as great a favorite with the Assyrians as with
the empire of the South. Her two principal temples were in Nineveh and Arbela ..."
6. The Chaldean Account of Genesis: Containing the Description of the Creation by George Smith (1876)
"—Release of ishtar.—Lament for Tammuz. N this section I have included the sixth
and seventh tablets, which both primarily refer to the doings of ishtar. ..."
7. Bel, the Christ of Ancient Times by Hugo Radau (1903)
"THE GENEALOGIES OF ishtar AND NUSKU AND THEIR DIFFICULTIES. TT is admitted by
every one who has studied the religion of the '*• Babylonians, that it is from ..."
8. The Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria: Its Remains, Language, History ...by Morris Jastrow by Morris Jastrow (1915)
""Lectures delivered under the Richard B. Westbrook lectureship foundation at the Wagner free institute of science, Philadelphia.""
9. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"To this story Tammuz, though in a subordinate position with respect to Anu, seems
to be independent, is not connected with ishtar, and with his companion is ..."
10. Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow (1911)
"It is significant that of the Powers involved in such combinations, ishtar alone
passed beyond the confines of Semite settlements and continued to exercise ..."
11. Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway (1879)
"EVEN across immemorial generations it is impossible to read without emotion the
legend of the Descent of ishtar into Hades.1 Through seven gates the goddess ..."
12. The Story of Assyria from the Rise of the Empire to the Fall of Nineveh by Zénaïde Alexeïevna Ragozin (1889)
"ishtar, on the other hand, was as great a favorite with the Assyrians as with
the empire of the South. Her two principal temples were in Nineveh and Arbela ..."
13. The Chaldean Account of Genesis: Containing the Description of the Creation by George Smith (1876)
"—Release of ishtar.—Lament for Tammuz. N this section I have included the sixth
and seventh tablets, which both primarily refer to the doings of ishtar. ..."
14. Bel, the Christ of Ancient Times by Hugo Radau (1903)
"THE GENEALOGIES OF ishtar AND NUSKU AND THEIR DIFFICULTIES. TT is admitted by
every one who has studied the religion of the '*• Babylonians, that it is from ..."
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