עַשְׁתָּרוֹת
Ashtaroth
BDB lists 3 entries for ‘Ashtaroth’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H6252 appears — 12 distinct verses across 5 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Deuteronomy 1 verse
Joshua 4 verses
- Joshua 9:10 בְּ/עַשְׁתָּרֽוֹת prep + n Proper and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.
- Joshua 12:4 בְּ/עַשְׁתָּר֖וֹת prep + n Proper and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
- Joshua 13:12 בְּ/עַשְׁתָּר֖וֹת prep + n Proper all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (the same was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for these did Moses strike, and drove them out.
- Joshua 13:31 וְ/עַשְׁתָּר֣וֹת conj + n Proper and half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even for the half of the children of Machir according to their families.
Judges 2 verses
- Judges 2:13 וְ/לָ/עַשְׁתָּרֽוֹת conj + prep det + n Proper They forsook Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
- Judges 10:6 הָ/עַשְׁתָּר֡וֹת ptcl def.art + n Proper The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baals, and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook Yahweh, and didn't serve him.
1 Samuel 4 verses
- 1 Samuel 7:3 וְ/הָ/עַשְׁתָּר֑וֹת conj + ptcl def.art + n Proper Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you do return to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
- 1 Samuel 7:4 הָ/עַשְׁתָּרֹ֑ת ptcl def.art + n Proper Then the children of Israel did put away the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served Yahweh only.
- 1 Samuel 12:10 הָ/עַשְׁתָּר֑וֹת ptcl def.art + n Proper They cried to Yahweh, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken Yahweh, and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.
- 1 Samuel 31:10 עַשְׁתָּר֑וֹת n Proper They put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
עשתרות (ʻAshtârôwth) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Ashtaroth.” It first appears in Deuteronomy 1:4. It turns up in 12 verses across 5 books, an uncommon footprint. It concentrates in Joshua, which alone accounts for 33% of its uses. For the data behind this summary, explore 12-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6252 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,101
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 12 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 12 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 10 verses · 83%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 8%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 8%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 3 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Ashtaroth 10×
- American Standard Version†: Ashtaroth 11×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Ashtoreths 6×, Ashtaroth 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Ashtoreths 6×, Ashtaroth 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6252 across 12† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6252 across 12† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6252 across 12† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6252 across 12† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
עשתרות I pl.f. only cstr. in phr. עַשְׁתְּר(וֹ)ת צֹאנֶ֑ךָ Dt 7
- a. = ewes (Thes) or as
- b. = young (cf. veneres gregis; in either case with ref. to ʿAštart as goddess of fecundity; RSSem i. 292, 457 f., 2nd ed. 310, 476 f., adopting b, thinks one type of ʿAšt. in Canaan had form of sheep, so Dr Dt 7:13); cf. also عَثَّرِى as name of land fertilized by dew and rain WeSkizzen iii. 170. e.g. Deuteronomy 7:13
עשתרות II loc. Ασταρωθ, etc., E. of Jordan (name from worship of diff. forms of ʿAštart
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
II. n.pl.f. only cstr. in phr. עַשְׁתְּר(וֹ)ת צֹאנֶ֑ךָ Dt 7:13; 28:4, 18, 51 (all ‖ שְׁגַר אֲלָפֶיךָ) usually interpr. either as
III. n.pr.loc. Ασταρωθ, etc., E. of Jordan (name from worship of diff. forms of ʿAštart; in Egypt. ʿastiratu, as E. Jordan loc. WMMAs. u. Eur. 162, 313; cf. TelAm. n. pr. loc. Aštarti);—in Bashan (near Edrei) Dt 1:4 (-רֹת), Jos 12:4; 13:12, 31 (all + אֶדְרֶ֑עִי), 9:10; 1 Ch 6:56 = בְּעֶשְׁתְּרָה (i.e. בֵּית עַשְׁתָּרָה) Jos 21:27; also עַשְׁתְּרֹת קַרְנַיִם Gn 14:5 (𝔊 Ασταρωθ Καρναιν, cf. GFM JBL xvi (1897), 155 f. who expl. name as ʿAshtereth of the two-peaked mt.); cf. further, קַרְנַיִם Am 6:13;—site prob. either Tel ʿAštara, 21 miles E. of Sea of Galilee, or Muzeirib, 8 miles further S.; poss. both occur in OT; cf. especially Dr Ashtaroth in HastDB Di Gn 14:5 BuhlGeogr. 248 ff. GASm Ency. Bib. 335 f.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עשתרה (ʻashtᵉrâh) (H6251) — ewe.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עַשְׁתְּרוֹת
- (b. h.) pr. n. Ashteroth Ḳarnayim, name of a glen whither the sun cannot penetrate. Succ. 2ᵃ
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 11 distinct written forms H6252 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּ/עַשְׁתָּר֖וֹת | Noun, Proper | Joshua 12:4 | 2 |
| בְּ/עַשְׁתָּרֹ֖ת | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 1:4 | 1 |
| בְּ/עַשְׁתָּרֽוֹת | Noun, Proper | Joshua 9:10 | 1 |
| הָ/עַשְׁתָּר֑וֹת | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 12:10 | 1 |
| הָ/עַשְׁתָּר֡וֹת | Noun, Proper | Judges 10:6 | 1 |
| הָ/עַשְׁתָּרֹ֑ת | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 7:4 | 1 |
| וְ/הָ/עַשְׁתָּר֑וֹת | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 7:3 | 1 |
| וְ/לָ/עַשְׁתָּרֽוֹת | Noun, Proper | Judges 2:13 | 1 |
| וְ/עַשְׁתָּר֣וֹת | Noun, Proper | Joshua 13:31 | 1 |
| עַשְׁתָּר֑וֹת | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 31:10 | 1 |
| עַשְׁתָּר֖וֹת | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:71 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6252, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- בעשתרה Bᵉʻeshtᵉrâh H1203 Beeshterah
- עשתרת ʻAshtôreth H6253 Ashtoreth
- עשתרתי ʻAshtᵉrâthîy H6254 Ashterathite
- עשתרת קרנים ʻAshtᵉrôth Qarnayim H6255 Ashtoreth-karnaim
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. 4 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Ashtaroth). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
A city of Bashan, in the kingdom of Og (Deut. 1:4; Josh. 12:4; 13:12; 9:10). It was in the half-tribe of Manasseh (Josh. 13:12), and as a Levitical city was given to the Gershonites (1 Chr. 6:71). Uzzia, one of David's valiant men (1 Chr. 11:44), is named as of this city. It is identified with Tell Ashterah, in the Hauran, and is noticed on monuments B.C. 1700-1500. The name Beesh-terah (Josh. 21:27) is a contraction for Beth-eshterah, i.e., "the house of Ashtaroth."
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
and once As'taroth (a star), a city on the east of Jordan in Bashan, in the kingdom of Og, doubtless so called from being a seat of the worship of the goddess of the same name. (1:4; Joshua 9:10; 12:4; 13:12)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
Ashtoreth, flocks; sheep; riches
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 11 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 12 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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