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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 AsherahAJSL 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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:13 - “But rather, you are to tear down their altars and shatter their sacred pillars and cut down their [fn]Asherim H842
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:5 - “But thus you shall do to them: you shall tear down their altars and shatter their sacred pillars and cut their [fn]Asherim H842 in pieces and burn their graven images with fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:3 - “And you shall tear down their altars and shatter their sacred pillars and burn their [fn]Asherim H842 with fire, and you shall cut the graven images of their gods in pieces and destroy their name from that place.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:21 -

“You shall not plant for yourself an [fn]Asherah H842 of any kind of tree beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make for yourself.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:7 -

Thus the sons of Israel did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh and forgot Yahweh their God and served the Baals and the [fn]Asheroth H842.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:25 -

Now it happened on the same night that Yahweh said to him, “Take your father’s bull [fn]and a second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal which belongs to your father, and cut down the [fn]Asherah H842 that is beside it,

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:26 - and build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold in an orderly manner, and take the second bull and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah H842 which you shall cut down.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:28 -

Then the men of the city arose early in the morning, and behold, the altar of Baal was torn down, and the Asherah H842 which was beside it was cut down, and the second bull was offered on the altar which had been built.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:30 - Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, for he has torn down the altar of Baal, and indeed, he has cut down the Asherah H842 which was beside it.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:15 -

“So Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the [fn]River, because they have made their [fn]Asherim H842, provoking Yahweh to anger.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:23 - They also built for themselves high places and sacred pillars and [fn]Asherim H842 on every high hill and beneath every green tree.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:13 - [fn]He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother, because she had made a horrid image [fn]for Asherah H842; and Asa cut down her horrid image and burned it at the brook Kidron.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:33 - Ahab also made the [fn]Asherah H842. Thus Ahab did more to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:19 - “So now then send and gather to me all Israel at Mount Carmel, together with 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of the Asherah H842, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:6 - Nevertheless they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel sin, but walked in [fn]them; and the Asherah H842 also remained standing in Samaria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:10 - And they set for themselves sacred pillars and [fn]Asherim H842 on every high hill and under every green tree,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:16 - And they forsook all the commandments of Yahweh their God and made for themselves molten images, even two calves, and made an [fn]Asherah H842 and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:4 - He took away the high places and shattered the sacred pillars and cut down the [fn]Asherah H842. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the sons of Israel were burning incense to it; and it was called [fn]Nehushtan.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:3 - Indeed, he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal and made an [fn]Asherah H842, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:7 - Then he put the graven image of Asherah H842, which he had made, in the house of which Yahweh had said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4 -

Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the [fn]doorkeepers, to bring out of the temple of Yahweh all the vessels that were made for Baal, for [fn]Asherah H842, and for all the host of heaven; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:6 - And he brought out the Asherah H842 from the house of Yahweh outside Jerusalem to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and ground it to dust, and threw its dust on the graves of the [fn]common people.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:7 - He also tore down the houses of the male cult prostitutes which were in the house of Yahweh, where the women were weaving [fn]hangings for the Asherah H842.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:14 - And he broke in pieces the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherim H842 and filled their places with human bones.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15 -

Furthermore, the altar that was at Bethel and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he tore down. Then he [fn]demolished its stones, ground them to dust, and burned the Asherah H842.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:3 - for he removed the foreign altars and high places, shattered the sacred pillars, cut the [fn]Asherim H842 in pieces,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:16 -

He also removed Maacah, the mother of King Asa, from being queen mother, because she had made a horrid image [fn]as an Asherah H842; and Asa cut down her horrid image, crushed it and burned it at the brook Kidron.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:6 - And [fn]his heart took great pride in the ways of Yahweh, and again he took away the high places and the [fn]Asherim H842 from Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:3 - “But some good has been found in you, for you have purged the [fn]Asheroth H842 from the land and you have set your heart to seek God.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:18 - And they forsook the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and served the [fn]Asherim H842 and the idols; so wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their guilt.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:1 -

Now when all this was completed, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, shattered the pillars, cut the [fn]Asherim H842 in pieces, and tore down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until the destruction was completed. Then all the sons of Israel returned to their cities, each to his possession.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:3 - Indeed, he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had torn down; and he erected altars for the Baals and made [fn]Asherim H842, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:19 - His prayer also and how God was entreated by him, and all his sin, his unfaithfulness, and the sites on which he built high places and erected the [fn]Asherim H842 and the graven images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the chronicles of the [fn]Hozai.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:3 - Now in the eighth year of his reign while he was still a youth, he began to seek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim H842, the graven images, and the molten images.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:4 - And they tore down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and the incense altars that were high above them he cut in pieces; also the Asherim H842, the graven images, and the molten images he broke in pieces and ground to powder and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7 - he also tore down the altars and beat the Asherim H842 and the graven images into powder, and cut in pieces all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:8 -

He will not have regard for the altars, the work of his hands,

Nor will he look to that which his fingers have made,

Even the [fn]Asherim H842 and [fn]incense stands.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:9 -

Therefore through this, Jacob’s iniquity will be atoned for;

And this will be the whole fruit of the turning away of his sin:

When he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalk stones,

When [fn]Asherim H842 and incense altars will not stand.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:2 -

As they remember their children,

So they remember their altars and their [fn]Asherim H842

By green trees on the high hills.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:14 -

“And I will uproot your [fn]Asherim H842 from among you

And [fn]eradicate your cities.

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