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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 BoxExo 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:13 - Ye shall destroy their altars, and break in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their groves, and the graven images of their gods ye shall burn with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:5 - But thus shall ye do to them; ye shall destroy their altars, and shall break down their pillars, and shall cut down their groves, and shall burn with fire the graven images of their gods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:3

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:21 - Thou shalt not [fn]plant for thyself a grove; thou shalt not plant for thyself any tree near the altar of thy God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:7 - And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgot the Lord their God, and served Baalim and the groves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:25 - And it came to pass in that night, that the Lord said to him, Take the young bullock which thy father has, even the second bullock of seven years old, and thou shalt destroy the altar of Baal which thy father has, and the grove which is by it thou shalt destroy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:26 - And thou shalt build an altar to the Lord thy God on the top of this Maozi in [fn]the ordering it, and thou shalt take the second bullock, and shalt offer up whole-burnt-offerings with the wood of the grove, which thou shalt destroy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:28 - And the men of the city rose up early in the morning; and behold, the altar of Baal had been demolished, and the grove by it had been destroyed; and they saw the second bullock, which Gedeon offered on the altar that had been built.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:30 - And the men of the city said to Joas, Bring out thy son, and let him die, because he has destroyed the altar of Baal, and because he has destroyed the grove that is by it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:23 - And they built for themselves high places, and pillars, and planted groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:13 - And he removed Ana his mother from being queen, forasmuch as she [fn]gathered a meeting in her grove: and Asa cut down her retreats, and burnt them with fire in the brook of Kedron.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:33 - And Achaab made a grove; and Achaab did yet more abominably, to provoke the Lord God of Israel, and to sin against his own life so that he should be destroyed: he did evil above all the kings of Israel that were before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:19 - And now send, gather to me all Israel to mount Carmel, and the prophets of [fn]shame four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, that eat at Jezabel's table.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:6 - Only they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who led Israel to sin: they walked in [fn]them—moreover the grove also remained in Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:10 - and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the [fn]fortified city. And they made for themselves pillars and groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:16 - They forsook the commandments of the Lord their God, and made themselves [fn]graven images, even two heifers, and they made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:4 - He [fn]removed the high places, and broke in pieces the pillars, and utterly destroyed the groves, and the brazen serpent which Moses made: because until those days the children of Israel burnt incense to it: and he called it Neesthan.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:3 - And he [fn]built again the high places, which Ezekias his father had demolished; and [fn]set up an altar to Baal, and made groves as Achaab king of Israel made them; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:7 - And he set up the graven image of the grove in the house of which the Lord 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 even place my name for ever.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4 - And the king commanded Chelcias the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and them that kept the door, to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and all the host of heaven, and he burned them without Jerusalem in the [fn]fields of Kedron, and [fn]took the ashes of them to Bæthel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:6 - And he carried out the grove from the house of the Lord to the brook Kedron, and burned it at the brook Kedron, and reduced it to [fn]powder, and cast its powder on the sepulchres of the sons of the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:7 - And he pulled down the house of the [fn]sodomites that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove tents for the grove.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:14 - And he broke in pieces the pillars, and utterly destroyed the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15 - Also the high altar in Bæthel, which Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that high altar he tore down, and broke in pieces the stones of it, and reduced it to powder, and burnt the grove.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:3 - (LXX 14:2) And he removed the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and broke the pillars in pieces, and cut down the groves:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:16 - And he removed Maacha his mother from being priestess to Astarte; and he cut down the idol, and burnt it in the brook of Kedron.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:6 - And his heart was exalted in the way of the Lord; and he removed the high places and the groves from the land of Juda.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:3 - Nevertheless some good things have been found in thee, forasmuch as thou didst remove the groves from the land of Juda, and didst direct thine heart to seek after the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:18 - And they forsook the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and served the Astartes and idols: and there was wrath upon Juda and Jerusalem in that day.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:1 - And when all these things were finished, all Israel that were found in the cities of Juda went out, and broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the groves, and tore down the high places and the altars out of all Judea and Benjamin, also of Ephraim and Manasse, till they made an end: and all Israel returned, every one to his inheritance, and to their cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:3 - And he returned and built the high places, which his father Ezekias had pulled down, and set up images to Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:19 - behold, they are in the account of his prayer; and God hearkened to him. And all his sins, and his backslidings, and the spots on which he built the high places, and set there groves and graven images, before he repented, behold, they are written in the books of the seers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:3 - And in the eighth year of his reign, and he being yet a youth, he began to seek the Lord God of his father David: and in the twelfth year of his reign he began to purge Juda and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the ornaments for the altars, and the molten images.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:4 - And he pulled down the altars of Baalim that were before his face, and the high places that were above them; and he cut down the groves, and the graven images, and broke in pieces the molten images, and reduced them to powder, and cast it upon the surface of the tombs of those who had sacrificed to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7 - And he pulled down the altars and the groves, and he cut the idols in small pieces, and cut off all the high places from all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:8 - And they shall not at all trust in their altars, nor in the works of their hands, which their fingers made; and they shall not look to the trees, nor to their abominations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:9 - Therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be taken away; and this is his blessing, when I shall have taken away his sin; when they shall have broken to pieces all the stones of the altars as fine dust, and their trees shall not remain, and their idols shall be cut off, as a thicket afar off.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:14 - (LXX 5:13) And I will cut off the groves out of the midst of thee, and I will abolish thy cities.
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