Astarte Definition

ə-stärtē
noun
An ancient Semitic goddess of love and war, being the Phoenician, Syrian, and Canaanite counterpart to Ishtar. In the Bible, her name sometimes appears in the plural, perhaps referring to a group of goddesses.
American Heritage
A Semitic goddess of fertility and sexual love, worshiped by the Phoenicians and others.
Webster's New World
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pronoun

A Semitic goddess of fertility, sexuality, and war; cognate in name, origin, and function with the goddess Ishtar of Mesopotamian texts.

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Origin of Astarte

  • Greek Astartē of Phoenician origin ʕṯtr in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek Αστάρτη (Astártē).

    From Wiktionary

Astarte Sentence Examples

  • As a consequence of the first half of the name, Atargatis has frequently, though wrongly, been identified with Astarte.

  • But it is probable that the horns were primarily ram's horns, 4 and that Astarte the moon-goddess is due to the influence of the Egyptian Isis 1 The vocalization suggests the Heb.

  • Astarte was introduced also into Egypt and had her temple at Memphis.

  • To nomads, Astarte may well have been a sheep-goddess, but this, if her earliest, was not her only type, as is clear from the sacred fish of Atargatis, the doves of Ascalon (and of the Phoenician sanctuary of Eryx), and the gazelle or antelope of the goddess of love (associated also with the Arabian Athtar).

  • Both Baal and Astarte were venerated in Egypt at Thebes and Memphis in the XIXth Dynasty, and the former, through the influence of the Aramaeans who borrowed the Babylonian spelling Bel, ultimately became known as the Greek Belos who was identified with Zeus.

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