Word: ZXZYR

Pronounce: ash-to'reth

Strong: H6253

Orig: probably for 6251; Ashtoreth, the Phoenician goddess of love (and increase):--Ashtoreth. H6251

Use: TWOT-1718 Proper Name Feminine

Grk Strong: G4168

    Ashtoreth = "star"

    1) the principal female deity of the Phoenicians worshipped in war and fertility
    1a) also 'Ishtar' of Assyria and 'Astarte' by the Greeks and Romans