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Strong's H842: אֲשֵׁרָה (ʼăshêrâh) Definition

Strong's number
H842
Lemma
אֲשֵׁרָה
Transliteration
ʼăshêrâh
Pronunciation
ash-ay-raw'
Strong's definition
Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same grove. Compare H6253 (עַשְׁתֹּרֶת). or אֲשֵׁירָה; from H833 (אָשַׁר); happy;

40 instances of the word אֲשֵׁרָה ʼăshêrâh (H842)


  • 2 Kings 21:3 - again For he built up the high places had destroyed which Hezekiah his father and he reared up altars for Baal and made a grove and made Ahab king of Israel and worshipped all the host of heaven and served

  • 2 Kings 21:7 - And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made In this house said of which the LORD to David and to Solomon his son In this house and in Jerusalem which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel And he set my name for ever

  • 2 Kings 23:4 - commanded And the king Hilkiah and the priests the high 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 - And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD without Jerusalem it at the brook Kidron and burned it at the brook Kidron and stamped it small the powder and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people

  • 2 Kings 23:7 - And he brake down hangings of the sodomites hangings of the LORD where the women wove hangings for the grove

  • 2 Kings 23:14 - And he brake in pieces the images and cut down the groves and filled their places with the bones of men

  • 2 Kings 23:15 - Moreover the altar that was at Bethel and the high place had made which Jeroboam the son of Nebat to sin who made Israel Moreover the altar and the high place he brake down and burned and the high place and stamped it small to powder and burned the grove

  • Deuteronomy 7:5 - But thus shall ye deal their altars with them ye shall destroy their images and break down their groves and cut down their graven images and burn with fire

  • Deuteronomy 12:3 - And ye shall overthrow their altars and break their pillars their groves and burn with fire the graven images of their gods and ye shall hew down and destroy the names of them out of that place

  • Deuteronomy 16:21 - Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God which thou shalt make

  • Exodus 34:13 - their altars But ye shall destroy their images break their groves and cut down

  • Isaiah 17:8 - And he shall not look to the altars the work of his hands have made that which his fingers neither shall respect either the groves or the images

  • Isaiah 27:9 - By this be purged therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob and this is all the fruit to take away his sin when he maketh all the stones of the altar all the stones as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder shall not stand up the groves and images

  • Jeremiah 17:2 - remember Whilst their children their altars and their groves trees by the green hills upon the high

  • Judges 3:7 - did And the children of Israel evil in the sight of the LORD and forgat of the LORD their God and served Baalim and the groves

  • Judges 6:25 - And it came to pass the same night said that the LORD unto him Take bullock bullock that thy father bullock even the second of seven years old and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father the grove hath and cut down

  • Judges 6:26 - And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock in the ordered place and take bullock the second and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down

  • Judges 6:28 - arose early of the city in the morning was cast down behold the altar of Baal and the grove was cut down bullock that was by it and the second was offered behold the altar that was built

  • Judges 6:30 - said of the city 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

  • Micah 5:14 - And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee so will I destroy