Asherah
אֲשֵׁרָהStrong’s H0842asherah (a-she-rah)
Appears in 40 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Asherah is the Hebrew word usually translated “asherah poles”, “asherah pole” and “asherah poles their”. It appears in 40 verses of the Old Testament.
“But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:”
Meaning
- § Ashera(h) = "groves (for idol worship)"
How it's translated
- the asherah poles 9
- the asherah pole 6
- and asherah poles their 3
- an asherah pole 3
- and the asherah poles 3
- and asherah poles 2
- asherah pole 2
- asherah 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 11
- 2 Chronicles 11
- Judges 5
- 1 Kings 5
- Deuteronomy 3
- Isaiah 2
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 7:5But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
- Deuteronomy 12:3And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
- Deuteronomy 16:21Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
- Judges 3:7And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
- Judges 6:25And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it:
- Judges 6:26And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.
Hebrew dictionary
אֲשֵׁרָה asherah · Asherah
§ Ashera(h) = "groves (for idol worship)" a Babylonian (Astarte)-Canaanite goddess (of fortune and happiness), the supposed consort of Baal, her images her images sacred trees or poles set up near an altar
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.