אֲשֵׁרָה asherah

Hebrew word for “Asherah” · Strong’s H842 · used 40 times in 40 verses

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Meaning

§ Ashera(h) = "groves (for idol worship)";

How it is translated

Glosses given for asherah in context, with how often each is used:

• asherah poles 22
• asherah pole 14
• asherah 4

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

2 Kings 23 (5), Judges 6 (4), 2 Chronicles 34 (3), 1 Kings 14 (2), 2 Kings 17 (2), 2 Kings 21 (2), 2 Chronicles 33 (2), Exodus 34 (1), Deuteronomy 7 (1), Deuteronomy 12 (1)

Forms

• האשׁרה 9
• האשׁרים 7
• אשׁרה 3
• לאשׁרה 3
• והאשׁרים 3
• ואשׁריהם 2
• האשׁרות 2
• ואשׁרים 2
• אשׁריו 1
• ואשׁירהם 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with asherah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מִזְבֵּחַ mizbeach “altar” 18
• נָתַץ natats “to tear” 11
• מַצֵּבָה matstsevah “pillar” 9
• בַּעַל baal “Baal” 10
• בָּמָה bamah “high place” 10
• גָּדַע gada “to cut down/off” 6
• פָּסִיל pesil “idol” 6
• שָׁבַר shavar “to break” 8
• כָּרַת karat “to cut” 9
• דָּקַק daqaq “to crush” 5
• שָׂרַף saraph “to burn” 7
• חַמָּן chamman “pillar” 4

Key verses

The verses using asherah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Judges 3:7 — And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
• 1 Kings 14:15 — For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall…
• 1 Kings 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 groves four…
• 2 Kings 17:16 — And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of…
• 2 Kings 18:4 — He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the…
• 2 Kings 21:3 — For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel;…
• 2 Kings 21:7 — And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem,…
• 2 Kings 23:4 — And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD…
• 2 Chronicles 33:3 — For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host…
• 2 Chronicles 33:19 — His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven…
• 2 Chronicles 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…
• Isaiah 27:9 — By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.