§ Ashera(h) = "groves (for idol worship)" a Babylonian (Astarte)-Canaanite goddess (of fortune and happiness), the supposed consort of Baal, her images her images sacred trees or poles set up near an altar
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a.she.rah · Asherah · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Exodus 34:13 · אֲשֵׁרָ֖יוBut ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:Deuteronomy 7:5 · וַאֲשֵֽׁירֵהֶם֙But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.Deuteronomy 12:3 · וַאֲשֵֽׁרֵיהֶם֙And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.Deuteronomy 16:21 · אֲשֵׁרָ֖הThou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.Judges 3:7 · הָאֲשֵׁרֽוֹת׃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.Judges 6:25 · הָאֲשֵׁרָ֥הAnd it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that [is] by it:Judges 6:26 · הָאֲשֵׁרָ֖הAnd build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.Judges 6:28 · וְהָאֲשֵׁרָ֥הAnd when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that [was] by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar [that was] built.Judges 6:30 · הָאֲשֵׁרָ֥הThen the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that [was] by it.1 Kings 14:15 · אֲשֵׁ֣רֵיהֶ֔םFor 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 scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.1 Kings 14:23 · וַאֲשֵׁרִ֑יםFor they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.1 Kings 15:13 · לָאֲשֵׁרָ֑הAnd also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from [being] queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt [it] by the brook Kidron.1 Kings 16:33 · הָאֲשֵׁרָ֑הAnd Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.1 Kings 18:19 · הָֽאֲשֵׁרָה֙Now 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 hundred, which eat at Jezebel’s table.2 Kings 13:6 · הָאֲשֵׁרָ֔הNevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, [but] walked therein: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.)2 Kings 17:10 · וַאֲשֵׁרִ֑יםAnd they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:2 Kings 17:16 · אֲשֵׁירָ֗הAnd 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 heaven, and served Baal.2 Kings 18:4 · הָֽאֲשֵׁרָ֑הHe 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 children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.2 Kings 21:3 · אֲשֵׁרָה֙For 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; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.2 Kings 21:7 · הָאֲשֵׁרָ֖הAnd 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, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:2 Kings 23:4 · וְלָֽאֲשֵׁרָ֔הAnd 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 all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.2 Kings 23:6 · הָאֲשֵׁרָה֩And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped [it] small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.2 Kings 23:7 · לָאֲשֵׁרָֽה׃And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that [were] by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.2 Kings 23:14 · הָאֲשֵׁרִ֑יםAnd he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.2 Kings 23:15 · אֲשֵׁרָֽה׃Moreover the altar that [was] at Bethel, [and] the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, [and] stamped [it] small to powder, and burned the grove.2 Chronicles 14:3 · הָאֲשֵׁרִֽים׃For he took away the altars of the strange [gods], and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:2 Chronicles 15:16 · לַאֲשֵׁרָ֖הAnd also [concerning] Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from [being] queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped [it], and burnt [it] at the brook Kidron.2 Chronicles 17:6 · הָאֲשֵׁרִ֖יםAnd his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.2 Chronicles 19:3 · הָאֲשֵׁרוֹת֙Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.2 Chronicles 24:18 · הָאֲשֵׁרִ֖יםAnd they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.2 Chronicles 31:1 · הָאֲשֵׁרִ֡יםNow when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.2 Chronicles 33:3 · אֲשֵׁר֔וֹתFor 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 of heaven, and served them.2 Chronicles 33:19 · הָאֲשֵׁרִ֣יםHis 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 images, before he was humbled: behold, they [are] written among the sayings of the seers.2 Chronicles 34:3 · וְהָ֣אֲשֵׁרִ֔יםFor 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 groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.2 Chronicles 34:4 · וְ֠הָאֲשֵׁרִיםAnd they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that [were] on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust [of them], and strowed [it] upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.2 Chronicles 34:7 · הָאֲשֵׁרִ֤יםAnd when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.Isaiah 17:8 · וְהָאֲשֵׁרִ֖יםAnd he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect [that] which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.Isaiah 27:9 · אֲשֵׁרִ֖יםBy 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 chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.Jeremiah 17:2 · וַאֲשֵׁרֵיהֶ֖םWhilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.Micah 5:14 · אֲשֵׁירֶ֖יךָAnd I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.