The story
- Hebrew · borrowed fromעַשְׁתֹּרֶת
- English todayAshtoreth
Borrowed from Hebrew עַשְׁתֹּרֶת (‘aštōreṯ), a qere perpetuum of the second syllable of עַשְׁתָּרְת (‘aštārṯ, “Astarte”) through the insertion of the vowels from בֹּשֶׁת (bōšeṯ, “abomination”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.