Gender Masculine
Usage Phoenician (Latinized)
Scripts 𐤏𐤁𐤃𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕(Phoenician) Ἀβδάσταρτος(Ancient Greek)
Meaning & History
From the Greek form Ἀβδάσταρτος (Abdastartos) of the Phoenician name 𐤏𐤁𐤃𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕 (ʿAbdʿashtart) meaning "servant of Ashtoreth", derived from 𐤏𐤁𐤃 (ʿabd) meaning "servant, slave" combined with the name of the goddess Ashtoreth. This was the name of a 10th-century BC king of Tyre, as recorded by the historian Josephus.
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