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Lexicon :: Strong's H842 - 'ăšērâ

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אֲשֵׁרָה
Transliteration
'ăšērâ
Pronunciation
ash-ay-raw'
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Part of Speech
proper feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 183h

Strong’s Definitions

אֲשֵׁרָה ʼăshêrâh, ash-ay-raw'; or אֲשֵׁירָה ʼăshêyrâh; from H833; happy; Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same:—grove. Compare H6253.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 40x

The KJV translates Strong's H842 in the following manner: grove (40x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 40x
The KJV translates Strong's H842 in the following manner: grove (40x).

  1. Ashera(h) = "groves (for idol worship)"

    1. a Babylonian (Astarte)-Canaanite goddess (of fortune and happiness), the supposed consort of Baal, her images

      1. the goddess, goddesses

      2. her images

      3. sacred trees or poles set up near an altar

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֲשֵׁרָה ʼăshêrâh, ash-ay-raw'; or אֲשֵׁירָה ʼăshêyrâh; from H833; happy; Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same:—grove. Compare H6253.
STRONGS H842: Abbreviations
† אֲשֵׁרָה, אֲשֵׁירָה 2 Kings 17:16 proper name, feminine Ashera (Assyrian proper name, feminine Aš-ra-tu, with sign for deity, in Canaanitish proper name Abad-Ašratum, servant of A. SchrZA 1888, 363, compare Wkl & AbelThontafelfund see El Amarna ii. No. 77, 1. 9, & SayceRP2. ii. 67, iii. 71; on derivatives compare Assyrian aširat, adjective feminine gracious, COTGloss): **see now also GFMEB ASHERAH DrDeut 16:21 AllenDB ASHERAH, all doubtful as to Canaanite goddess Asherah; question left open by ZimKAT 3. 436 ff. (on Semitic goddess Aširtu-Ašratu Id.ib, 432 ff.); but see JeremAT im Licht d. Alten Orients 207 (name of goddess Aširat in letter found at Taanach by Sellin (1902-3) and Id.ib. 37. 237) (Oppenheim's find at Ras el-`Ain in Mesopotamia, stone shaft with veiled head as top, supposed to identify post with goddess; if 2 Kings 23:7 refers to draped Asherim [see on text Benz Bur], this even more plausible), Id.ib. 23, 208 f. 236. On pictorial representations of Asherah—AJSL xix.l (Oct.1902). — usually with the article: probably.
a. a Canaanitish goddess of fortune & happiness; having prophets 1 Kings 18:19, an image 1 Kings 15:13 2 Chronicles 15:16; 2 Kings 21:7, sacred vessels 2 Kings 23:4, houses 2 Kings 23:7.
b. a symbol of this goddess, a sacred tree or pole set up near an altar 1 Kings 16:33; 2 Kings 13:6; 2 Kings 17:16; 2 Kings 18:4; 2 Kings 21:3; 2 Kings 23:6, 15; prohibited Deuteronomy 16:1; burnt by Gideon Judges 6:25, 26, 28, 30.
Plural אֲשֵׁרוֺת
a. the goddess Judges 3:7 (probably error for עַשְׁתָּרֹת Vulgate).
b. sacred trees or poles 2 Chronicles 19:3; 33:3; elsewhere אֲשֵׁרִים id. Isaiah 27:9 + 12 times; suffix Micah 5:14 + 5 times; — Exodus 34:13 (J) Deuteronomy 7:5; Deuteronomy 12:3; Isaiah 17:8; Isaiah 27:9; Jeremiah 17:20; Micah 5:13; 1 Kings 14:15, 23; 2 Kings 17:10; 2 Kings 23:14; 2 Chronicles 14:2; 2 Chronicles 17:6; 24:18; 31:1; 33:19; 34:3, 4, 7. — (compare also StaZAW 1881, 344 f. RSSemitic i. 171 f., 175 n. WeH 235, who think א׳ only the sacred pole.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

34:13

Deuteronomy

7:5; 12:3; 16:1; 16:21

Judges

3:7; 6:25; 6:26; 6:28; 6:30

1 Kings

14:15; 14:23; 15:13; 16:33; 18:19

2 Kings

13:6; 17:10; 17:16; 17:16; 18:4; 21:3; 21:7; 23:4; 23:6; 23:7; 23:7; 23:14; 23:15

2 Chronicles

14:2; 15:16; 17:6; 19:3; 24:18; 31:1; 33:3; 33:19; 34:3; 34:4; 34:7

Isaiah

17:8; 27:9; 27:9

Jeremiah

17:20

Micah

5:13; 5:14

H842

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Strong's Number H842 matches the Hebrew אֲשֵׁרָה ('ăšērâ),
which occurs 40 times in 40 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:13 - but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:5 - But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:3 - and ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods; and ye shall destroy their name out of that place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:21 - Thou shalt not plant thee an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Jehovah thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:7 - And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and forgat Jehovah their God, and served the Baalim and the Asheroth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:25 - And it came to pass the same night, that Jehovah said unto him, Take thy father’s bullock, even the second bullock seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the Asherah that is by it;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:26 - and build an altar unto Jehovah thy God upon the top of this stronghold, in the orderly manner, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt-offering with the wood of the Asherah which thou shalt cut down.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:28 - And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:30 - Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may die, because he hath broken down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the Asherah that was by it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:15 - For Jehovah will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking Jehovah to anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:23 - For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:13 - And also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:33 - And Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did yet more to provoke Jehovah, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:19 - Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the Asherah four hundred, that eat at Jezebel’s table.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 13:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:6 - Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, wherewith he made Israel to sin, but walked therein: and there remained the Asherah also in Samaria.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:10 - and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:16 - And they forsook all the commandments of Jehovah their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:4 - He removed the high places, and brake the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:3 - For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:7 - And he set the graven image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which Jehovah said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4 - And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth out of the temple of Jehovah all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven, and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:6 - And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Jehovah, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust thereof upon the graves of the common people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:7 - And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:14 - And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15 - Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he brake down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 14:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:3 - for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and brake down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:16 - And also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 17:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:6 - And his heart was lifted up in the ways of Jehovah: and furthermore he took away the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 19:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:3 - Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast put away the Asheroth out of the land, and hast set thy heart to seek God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 24:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:18 - And they forsook the house of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 31:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:1 - Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake in pieces the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, and brake down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:3 - For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baalim, and made Asheroth, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:19 - His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:3 - For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:4 - And they brake down the altars of the Baalim in his presence; and the sun-images that were on high above them he hewed down; and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7 - And he brake down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the graven images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:8 - And they shall not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they have respect to that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:9 - Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 17:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:2 - whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:14 - and I will pluck up thine Asherim out of the midst of thee; and I will destroy thy cities.
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