ashtarot · Ashtaroth

What it means

ashtarot (עַשְׁתָּרוֹת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Ashtaroth”.

A city of Bashan, east of the Jordan, where Og reigned. It bears the name of a Canaanite goddess.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Ashtaroth ×6
• Astartes ×6

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×4
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×4
• 1 Chronicles×1

• Deuteronomy 1:4

  after he had struck Sihon, king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, in Edrei.

• Joshua 9:10

  and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorite who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan, who was in Ashtaroth.

• Joshua 12:4

  and the territory of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived in Ashtaroth and in Edrei,

• Joshua 13:12

  all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); Moses struck them and dispossessed them.

• Joshua 13:31

  and half of Gilead, and Ashtaroth and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the sons of Machir son of Manasseh, for half of the sons of Machir, according to their families.

• Judges 2:13

  They abandoned YHWH and served Baal and the Astartes.

• Judges 10:6

  The sons of Israel again did what was evil in the eyes of YHWH, and served the Baals and the Astartes, the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the sons of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; they abandoned YHWH and did not serve him.

• 1 Samuel 7:3

  And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If with all your heart you are returning to YHWH, put away the foreign gods from among you, and the Astartes, and prepare your heart for YHWH and serve him alone, and he will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”

• 1 Samuel 7:4

  So the sons of Israel put away the Baals and the Astartes, and served YHWH alone.

• 1 Samuel 12:10

  They cried out to YHWH and said, ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken YHWH and have served the Baals and the Astartes. And now deliver us from the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.’

• 1 Samuel 31:10

  They put his weapons in the house of the Astartes, and his body they fastened to the wall of Beth-shan.

• 1 Chronicles 6:71

  To the sons of Gershom, from the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands, and Ashtaroth with its pasturelands;