Astarte

ASTARTE - Asht-tart,"the woman that made towers". Tart comes from the Hebrew verb tr, "to go around", or "to be round", "to surround", or "encompass". The masculine form of the word, tor, used for "a border, or row of jewels round the head". The feminine, turis, is Greek form of turit, with the "t" in Greek converted to an "s". In Hebrew, Ashtoreth, "the woman that made the encompassing wall." The name Astarte also signified, "maker of investigations."