Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
Astarte .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The principal female divinity of the Phœnicians, as Baal was the principal male divinity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun Alternative form of
Astarte .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an ancient Phoenician goddess of love and fertility; the Phoenician counterpart to Ishtar
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This tablet represents, he thinks, the sacrifice of a child to Astarte, < 27 > also called Ashtoreth, the great female deity of the ancient Semitic nations on both sides of the Euphrates, but chiefly of Phoenicia.
The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen
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[[Baal]] and [[Asherah]], aka Ashtoreth, aka Astarte.
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Ashthertet ( 'Ashtoreth') driving her chariot over the prostrate foe.
Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations 1895
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Istar, Aphrodite, Ashtoreth, Astarte, the Virgin Mary, and Greek Astraea, the goddess of Justice, whose scales form the constellation of Libra.
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More specifically, the Queen of Heaven term is nothing more than Ishtar, Ashtoreth or Astarte directly discussed in Jeremiah 7:18, Jeremiah 44: 17-19.
TEXAS FAITH: Misunderstanding (my) religion | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009
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The worshippers of Ashtoreth, Asherah and Ishtar all celebrated their revered Goddesses by baking specially marked "cakes" various types of flat and risen breads and consuming them at special feast times.
Archive 2008-01-01 Jan 2008
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One finds in books of the 15th and 16th centuries a demon Ashtoreth or Astaroth, a "duke" or "prince" of hell.
Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008
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Astarte-Ashtoreth was transformed into a devil by Christian writers, who automatically assumed that any deity mentioned in the Bible other than Yahweh was one of the denizens of hell.
Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008
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Ashtoreth, Ashtaroth or Ashirah,392 the Anaitis of Armenia, the
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Carthaginian name of the Phoenician Great Goddess, Astarte - the biblical Ashtoreth or Asherah.
Archive 2008-04-01 Jan 2008
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