Word Summary
Beeshterah: perhaps "house of Ashtoreth", a Levitical city in Manasseh
Original Word: בְּעֶשְׁתְּרָהTransliteration: Beeshterah
Phonetic Spelling: (beh-esh-ter-aw')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: perhaps "house of Ashtoreth", a Levitical city in Manasseh
Meaning: Be-eshterah -- perhaps "house of Ashtoreth", a Levitical city in Manasseh
Strong's Concordance
Beeshterah
From ashtrah (as singular of Ashtarowth) with a prepositional prefix; with Ashtoreth; Beeshterah, a place East of the Jordan -- Beeshterah.
see HEBREW ashtrah
see HEBREW Ashtarowth
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H1203. Beeshterah
בְּעֶשְׁתְּרָה proper name, of a location (? = עשׁתרה בֵּית = house of Ashtoreth, compare below בית) a Levitical city in Manasseh Joshua 21:27; = עַשְׁתָּרוֺת 1 Chronicles 6:56