§ 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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H842 — אֲשֵׁרָה
a.she.rah · Asherah · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Exodus 34:13 · אֲשֵׁרָ֖יוfor their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and its shrines ye cut down;Deuteronomy 7:5 · וַאֲשֵֽׁירֵהֶם֙‘But thus thou dost to them: their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and their shrines ye cut down, and their graven images ye burn with fire;Deuteronomy 12:3 · וַאֲשֵֽׁרֵיהֶם֙and ye have broken down their altars, and shivered their standing pillars, and their shrines ye burn with fire, and graven images of their gods ye cut down, and have destroyed their name out of that place.Deuteronomy 16:21 · אֲשֵׁרָ֖ה‘Thou dost not plant for thee a shrine of any trees near the altar of Jehovah thy God, which thou makest for thyself,Judges 3:7 · הָאֲשֵׁרֽוֹת׃and the sons of Israel do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and forget Jehovah their God, and serve the Baalim and the shrines.Judges 6:25 · הָאֲשֵׁרָ֥הAnd it cometh to pass, on that night, that Jehovah saith to him, ‘Take the young ox which is to thy father, and the second bullock of seven years, and thou hast thrown down the altar of Baal which is to thy father, and the shrine which is by it thou dost cut down,Judges 6:26 · הָאֲשֵׁרָ֖הand thou hast built an altar to Jehovah thy God on the top of this stronghold, by the arrangement, and hast taken the second bullock, and caused to ascend a burnt-offering with the wood of the shrine which thou cuttest down.’Judges 6:28 · וְהָאֲשֵׁרָ֥הAnd the men of the city rise early in the morning, and lo, broken down hath been the altar of Baal, and the shrine which is by it hath been cut down, and the second bullock hath been offered on the altar which is built.Judges 6:30 · הָאֲשֵׁרָ֥הAnd the men of the city say unto Joash, ‘Bring out thy son, and he dieth, because he hath broken down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the shrine which is by it.’1 Kings 14:15 · אֲשֵׁ֣רֵיהֶ֔םAnd Jehovah hath smitten Israel as the reed is moved by the waters, and hath plucked Israel from off this good ground that He gave to their fathers, and scattered them beyond the River, because that they made their shrines, provoking Jehovah to anger;1 Kings 14:23 · וַאֲשֵׁרִ֑יםAnd they build—also they—for themselves high places, and standing-pillars, and shrines, on every high height, and under every green tree;1 Kings 15:13 · לָאֲשֵׁרָ֑הand also Maachah his mother—he turneth her aside from being mistress, in that she made a horrible thing for a shrine, and Asa cutteth down her horrible thing, and burneth it by the brook Kidron;1 Kings 16:33 · הָאֲשֵׁרָ֑הand Ahab maketh the shrine, and Ahab addeth to do so as to provoke Jehovah, God of Israel, above all the kings of Israel who have been before him.1 Kings 18:19 · הָֽאֲשֵׁרָה֙and now, send, gather unto me all Israel, unto the mount of Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the shrine, four hundred—eating at the table of Jezebel.’2 Kings 13:6 · הָאֲשֵׁרָ֔הonly, they have not turned aside from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, that he caused Israel to sin, therein they walked, and also, the shrine hath remained in Samaria,—2 Kings 17:10 · וַאֲשֵׁרִ֑יםand set up for them standing-pillars and shrines on every high height, and under every green tree,2 Kings 17:16 · אֲשֵׁירָ֗הAnd they forsake all the commands of Jehovah their God, and make to them a molten image—two calves, and make a shrine, and bow themselves to all the host of the heavens, and serve Baal,2 Kings 18:4 · הָֽאֲשֵׁרָ֑הhe hath turned aside the high places, and broken in pieces the standing-pillars, and cut down the shrine, and beaten down the brazen serpent that Moses made, for unto these days were the sons of Israel making perfume to it, and he calleth it ‘a piece of brass.’2 Kings 21:3 · אֲשֵׁרָה֙and he turneth and buildeth the high places that Hezekiah his father destroyed, and raiseth altars for Baal, and maketh a shrine, as did Ahab king of Israel, and boweth himself to all the host of the heavens, and serveth them.2 Kings 21:7 · הָאֲשֵׁרָ֖הAnd he setteth the graven image of the shrine that he made in the house of which Jehovah said unto David and unto Solomon his son, ‘In this house, and in Jerusalem, that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I put My name—to the age;2 Kings 23:4 · וְלָֽאֲשֵׁרָ֔הAnd the king commandeth Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out from the temple of Jehovah all the vessels that are made for Baal, and for the shrine, and for all the host of the heavens, and he burneth them at the outside of Jerusalem, in the fields of Kidron, and hath borne their ashes to Beth-El.2 Kings 23:6 · הָאֲשֵׁרָה֩And he bringeth out the shrine from the house of Jehovah to the outside of Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burneth it at the brook Kidron, and beateth it small to dust, and casteth its dust on the grave of the sons of the people.2 Kings 23:7 · לָאֲשֵׁרָֽה׃And he breaketh down the houses of the whoremongers that are in the house of Jehovah, where the women are weaving houses for the shrine.2 Kings 23:14 · הָאֲשֵׁרִ֑יםAnd he hath broken in pieces the standing-pillars, and cutteth down the shrines, and filleth their place with bones of men;2 Kings 23:15 · אֲשֵׁרָֽה׃and also the altar that is in Beth-El, the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat made, by which he made Israel sin, both that altar and the high place he hath broken down, and doth burn the high place—he hath beat it small to dust, and hath burnt the shrine.2 Chronicles 14:3 · הָאֲשֵׁרִֽים׃and turneth aside the altars of the stranger, and the high places, and breaketh the standing-pillars, and cutteth down the shrines,2 Chronicles 15:16 · לַאֲשֵׁרָ֖הAnd also Maachah, mother of Asa the king—he hath removed her from being mistress, in that she hath made for a shrine a horrible thing, and Asa cutteth down her horrible thing, and beateth it small, and burneth it by the brook Kidron:2 Chronicles 17:6 · הָאֲשֵׁרִ֖יםand his heart is high in the ways of Jehovah, and again he hath turned aside the high places and the shrines out of Judah.2 Chronicles 19:3 · הָאֲשֵׁרוֹת֙but good things have been found with thee, for thou hast put away the shrines out of the land, and hast prepared thy heart to seek God.’2 Chronicles 24:18 · הָאֲשֵׁרִ֖יםand they forsake the house of Jehovah, God of their fathers, and serve the shrines and the idols, and there is wrath upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their guilt.2 Chronicles 31:1 · הָאֲשֵׁרִ֡יםAnd at the completion of all this, gone out have all Israel who are found present to the cities of Judah, and break the standing-pillars, and cut down the shrines, and break down the high places and the altars, out of all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, even to completion, and all the sons of Israel turn back, each to his Possession, to their cities.2 Chronicles 33:3 · אֲשֵׁר֔וֹתand he turneth and buildeth the high places that Hezekiah his father hath broken down, and raiseth altars for Baalim, and maketh shrines, and boweth himself to all the host of the heavens, and serveth them.2 Chronicles 33:19 · הָאֲשֵׁרִ֣יםand his prayer, and his entreaty, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places in which he had built high places, and established the shrines and the graven images before his being humbled, lo, they are written beside the matters of Hozai.2 Chronicles 34:3 · וְהָ֣אֲשֵׁרִ֔יםAnd in the eighth year of his reign (and he yet a youth), he hath begun to seek to the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he hath begun to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the shrines, and the graven images, and the molten images.2 Chronicles 34:4 · וְ֠הָאֲשֵׁרִיםAnd they break down before him the altars of the Baalim, and the images that are on high above them he hath cut down, and the shrines, and the graven images, and the molten images, he hath broken and beaten small, and streweth on the surface of the graves of those sacrificing to them,2 Chronicles 34:7 · הָאֲשֵׁרִ֤יםAnd he breaketh down the altars and the shrines, and the graven images he hath beaten down very small, and all the images he hath cut down in all the land of Israel, and turneth back to Jerusalem.Isaiah 17:8 · וְהָאֲשֵׁרִ֖יםAnd he looketh not unto the altars. The work of his own hands, And that which his own fingers made He seeth not—the shrines and the images.Isaiah 27:9 · אֲשֵׁרִ֖יםTherefore by this is the iniquity of Jacob covered, And this is all the fruit—To take away his sin, in His setting all the stones of an altar, As chalkstones beaten in pieces, They rise not—shrines and images.Jeremiah 17:2 · וַאֲשֵׁרֵיהֶ֖םAs their sons remember their altars and their shrines, By the green tree, by the high hills.Micah 5:14 · אֲשֵׁירֶ֖יךָAnd I have plucked up thy shrines out of thy midst, And I have destroyed thine enemies.