Disphomism

A disphemism would be to say something in a worse way. And so that's what often happens in scripture. The same thing is as is happening with with the astereth and the asteroth here, is that you have astarte which are the same consonants, but you have the changing of the vowels. So now whenever you, as an israelite, are pronouncing the asteret or asteroth, you're reminded that this is shameful.

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