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# עַשְׁתָּרוֹת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6252

**Asharoth** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Asharoth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6252/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַשְׁתָּרוֹת³: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6252/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** 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.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Ashtaroth (6).

## In the verses

[Joshua 12:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.4/#tree)

וּגְב֗וּל ע֚וֹג מֶ֣לֶךְ הַבָּשָׁ֔ן מִיֶּ֖תֶר הָרְפָאִ֑ים הַיּוֹשֵׁ֥ב בְּעַשְׁתָּר֖וֹת וּבְאֶדְרֶֽעִי׃

*Word for word:* and the.territory of.Og the.king of.(the) Bashan one of.the.remnant of the.Rephaites \[who was\].dwelling in Ashtaroth and in Edrei

*JPS 1917:* and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,

[Deuteronomy 1:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.1.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.1.4/#tree)

אַחֲרֵ֣י הַכֹּת֗וֹ אֵ֚ת סִיחֹן֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ הָֽאֱמֹרִ֔י אֲשֶׁ֥ר יוֹשֵׁ֖ב בְּחֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן וְאֵ֗ת ע֚וֹג מֶ֣לֶךְ הַבָּשָׁ֔ן אֲשֶׁר־יוֹשֵׁ֥ב בְּעַשְׁתָּרֹ֖ת בְּאֶדְרֶֽעִי׃

*Word for word:* after he had.defeated (et) Sihon the.king of the.Amorite\[s\] who \[was\].dwelling in Heshbon and (et) Og the.king of.(the) Bashan who \[was\].dwelling in Ashtaroth in Edrei

*JPS 1917:* after he had smitten Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt in Ashtaroth, at Edrei;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6252.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6252/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).