§ 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 you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim;Deuteronomy 7:5 · וַאֲשֵֽׁירֵהֶם֙But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, and dash their pillars in pieces, and cut down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.Deuteronomy 12:3 · וַאֲשֵֽׁרֵיהֶם֙and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place.Deuteronomy 16:21 · אֲשֵׁרָ֖הYou shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make for yourselves.Judges 3:7 · הָאֲשֵׁרֽוֹת׃The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.Judges 6:25 · הָאֲשֵׁרָ֥הIt happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, “Take your father’s bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it;Judges 6:26 · הָאֲשֵׁרָ֖הand build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in an orderly way, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.”Judges 6:28 · וְהָאֲשֵׁרָ֥הWhen the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bull was offered on the altar that was built.Judges 6:30 · הָאֲשֵׁרָ֥הThen the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it.”1 Kings 14:15 · אֲשֵׁ֣רֵיהֶ֔םFor Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking Yahweh to anger.1 Kings 14:23 · וַאֲשֵׁרִ֑יםFor they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;1 Kings 15:13 · לָאֲשֵׁרָ֑הAlso Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.1 Kings 16:33 · הָאֲשֵׁרָ֑הAhab made the Asherah; and Ahab did yet more to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.1 Kings 18:19 · הָֽאֲשֵׁרָה֙Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and four hundred fifty of the prophets of Baal, and four hundred of the prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”2 Kings 13:6 · הָאֲשֵׁרָ֔הNevertheless they didn’t depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin, but walked therein: and there remained the Asherah also in Samaria.)2 Kings 17:10 · וַאֲשֵׁרִ֑יםand they set them up pillars and Asherim on every high hill, and under every green tree;2 Kings 17:16 · אֲשֵׁירָ֗הThey forsook all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal.2 Kings 18:4 · הָֽאֲשֵׁרָ֑הHe 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 in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.2 Kings 21:3 · אֲשֵׁרָה֙For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.2 Kings 21:7 · הָאֲשֵׁרָ֖הHe set the engraved image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which Yahweh 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 put my name forever;2 Kings 23:4 · וְלָֽאֲשֵׁרָ֔הThe king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth out of the temple of Yahweh all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.2 Kings 23:6 · הָאֲשֵׁרָה֩He brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.2 Kings 23:7 · לָאֲשֵׁרָֽה׃He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Yahweh, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.2 Kings 23:14 · הָאֲשֵׁרִ֑יםHe broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, 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, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.2 Chronicles 14:3 · הָאֲשֵׁרִֽים׃for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and cut down the Asherim,2 Chronicles 15:16 · לַאֲשֵׁרָ֖הAlso Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.2 Chronicles 17:6 · הָאֲשֵׁרִ֖יםHis heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh: and furthermore he took away the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.2 Chronicles 19:3 · הָאֲשֵׁרוֹת֙Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”2 Chronicles 24:18 · הָאֲשֵׁרִ֖יםThey forsook the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.2 Chronicles 31:1 · הָאֲשֵׁרִ֡יםNow 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 out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had 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 the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.2 Chronicles 33:19 · הָאֲשֵׁרִ֣יםHis prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.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 Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images.2 Chronicles 34:4 · וְ֠הָאֲשֵׁרִיםThey broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and the incense altars that were on high above them he cut down; and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.2 Chronicles 34:7 · הָאֲשֵׁרִ֤יםHe broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.Isaiah 17:8 · וְהָאֲשֵׁרִ֖יםThey will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the incense altars.Isaiah 27:9 · אֲשֵׁרִ֖יםTherefore, by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherim and the incense altars shall rise no more.Jeremiah 17:2 · וַאֲשֵׁרֵיהֶ֖םwhile their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees on the high hills.Micah 5:14 · אֲשֵׁירֶ֖יךָI will uproot your Asherim out of your midst; and I will destroy your cities.