H842 אֲשֵׁרָה
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 40 KJV occurrences
אֲשֵׁרָה
ʼăshêrâh · ash-ay-raw'
Definition
Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same
KJV Renderings
grove. Compare H6253 (עַשְׁתֹּרֶת).
Derivation / Etymology
or אֲשֵׁירָה; from H833 (אָשַׁר); happy;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 40)
- Exodus 34:13But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
- Judges 6:25¶ And 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:
- 1 Kings 14:23For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
- 2 Kings 17:10And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
- 2 Kings 23:4And 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 Beth-el.
- 2 Chronicles 14:3For 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 31:1Now 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 34:7And 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.