Astarte
pronunciation
How to pronounce Astarte in British English:
UK [æˈstɑ:ti]
How to pronounce Astarte in American English:
US [əˈstɑrti]
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- Noun:
- a fertility goddess; counterpart of Ashtoreth and Ishtar
Word Origin
- Astarte
- Phoenician goddess identified with Greek Aphrodite, from Greek Astarte, from Phoenician Astoreth.
Example
- 1. And the dove was the sacred symbol of astarte .
- 2. Astarte , I 'm sorry about what happened .
- 3. The cult of ishtar or astarte - the mother goddess and ' queen of heaven ' - involved , or example , a seven-stage initiation [ the seven veils ] .
- 4. Under the two preceding kings , amon and manasse , idolatry had been introduced in the most shameful forms ( especially the cult of baal and astarte ) into the holy city , and with this foreign cult came a foreign culture and a great corruption of morals .