Queen of heaven
(Jer. 7:18; 44:17, 25), the moon, worshipped by the Assyrians as the receptive power in nature.
Passages cited in this entry
M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 3rd edition (1897). Public domain; text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. A nineteenth-century Protestant reference: its dates, archaeology and judgements reflect the scholarship of its time and are not Imago Dei's editorial position.