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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 - You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:5 - But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and chop down their Asherim and burn their carved images with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:3 - You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and destroy their name out of that place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:21 - “You shall not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of the LORD your God that you shall make.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:7 - And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. They forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:25 - That night the LORD said to him, “Take your father’s bull, and the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:26 - and build an altar to the LORD your God on the top of the stronghold here, with stones laid in due order. Then take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah that you shall cut down.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:28 - When the men of the town rose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah beside it was cut down, and the second bull was offered on the altar that had been built.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:30 - Then the men of the town said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, for he has broken down the altar of Baal and cut down the Asherah beside it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:15 - the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water, and root up Israel out of this good land that he gave to their fathers and scatter them beyond the Euphrates,[fn] because they have made their Asherim, provoking the LORD to anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:23 - For they also built for themselves 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 - He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:33 - And Ahab made an Asherah. Ahab did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:19 - Now therefore send and gather all Israel to me at Mount Carmel, and the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 13:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:6 - Nevertheless, they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin, but walked[fn] in them; and the Asherah also remained in Samaria.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:10 - They set up for themselves pillars and Asherim on 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 abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made for themselves metal images of two calves; and they made an Asherah and worshiped 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 broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan).[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:3 - For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:7 - And the carved image of Asherah that he had made he set 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, I will put my name forever.

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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 out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.

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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 the LORD, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves of the common people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:7 - And he broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes who were in the house of the LORD, 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 broke 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 at Bethel, the high place erected by Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, that altar with the high place he pulled down and burned,[fn] reducing it to dust. He also burned the Asherah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 14:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:3 - He took away the foreign altars and the high places and broke down the pillars and cut down the Asherim

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:16 - Even Maacah, his mother, King Asa removed from being queen mother because she had made a detestable image for Asherah. Asa cut down her image, crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 17:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:6 - His heart was courageous in the ways of the LORD. And furthermore, he took 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, some good is found in you, for you destroyed the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 24:18

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 31:1

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:3 - For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had broken down, and he erected altars to the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:19 - And his prayer, and how God was moved by his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Asherim and the images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.[fn]

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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 a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and the metal images.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:4 - And they chopped down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and he cut down the incense altars that stood above them. And he broke in pieces the Asherim and the carved and the metal images, and he made dust of them and scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7 - he broke down the altars and beat the Asherim and the images into powder and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:8 - He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and he will not look on what his own fingers have made, either the Asherim or the altars of incense.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:9 - Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,
and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:[fn]
when he makes all the stones of the altars
like chalkstones crushed to pieces,
no Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 17:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:2 - while their children remember their altars and their Asherim, beside every green tree and on the high hills,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:14 - and I will root out your Asherah images from among you
and destroy your cities.
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