אֲשֵׁרָה (a.she.rah) means “Asherah” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: ash-ay-raw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
אֲשֵׁרָה · a.she.rah · Asherah
§ 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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or אֲשֵׁירָה; from H833 (אָשַׁר); happy; Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same
KJV glosses: grove. Compare H6253 (עַשְׁתֹּרֶת).
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the asherah poles | 9 |
| and asherah poles | 5 |
| the asherah pole | 5 |
| asherah pole | 4 |
| their asherah poles | 4 |
| asherah poles | 3 |
| an asherah pole | 2 |
| and an asherah pole | 1 |
| and the asherahs | 1 |
| asherah | 1 |
| for asherah | 1 |
| of asherah | 1 |
| of the asherah pole | 1 |
| or to the asherahs | 1 |
| with the asherah pole | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the groves | 6 |
| the grove | 5 |
| and the groves | 4 |
| their groves | 4 |
| a grove | 3 |
| and groves | 3 |
| groves | 3 |
| in a grove | 2 |
| of the grove | 2 |
| and for the grove | 1 |
| and the grove | 1 |
| and their groves | 1 |
| either the groves | 1 |
| for the grove | 1 |
| of the groves | 1 |
| thee a grove | 1 |
| thy groves | 1 |
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Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.
Read word by wordInstead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.
Read word by wordTear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.
Read word by wordDo not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,
Read word by wordSo the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.
Read word by wordOn that very night the LORD said to Gideon, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.
Read word by wordThen build a proper altar to the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold. And with the wood of the Asherah pole you cut down, take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering.”
Read word by wordWhen the men of the city got up in the morning, there was Baal’s altar torn down, with the Asherah pole cut down beside it and the second bull offered up on the newly built altar.
Read word by wordThen the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son. He must die, because he has torn down Baal’s altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.”
Read word by wordFor the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger.
Read word by wordThey also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
Read word by wordHe also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
Read word by wordThen he set up an Asherah pole. Thus Ahab did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel before him.
Read word by wordNow summon all Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel, along with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah who eat at Jezebel’s table.”
Read word by wordNevertheless, they did not turn away from the sins that the house of Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit, but they continued to walk in them. The Asherah pole even remained standing in Samaria.
Read word by wordThey set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
Read word by wordThey abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.
Read word by wordHe removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to it.
Read word by wordFor he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.
Read word by wordManasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.
Read word by wordThen the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
Read word by wordHe brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.
Read word by wordHe also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the house of the LORD, where the women had woven tapestries for Asherah.
Read word by wordHe smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.
Read word by wordHe even pulled down the altar at Bethel, the high place set up by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. Then he burned the high place, ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole.
Read word by wordHe removed the foreign altars and high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and chopped down the Asherah poles.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 14.2
King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
Read word by wordAnd his heart took delight in the ways of the LORD; furthermore, he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.
Read word by wordHowever, some good is found in you, for you have removed the Asherah poles from the land and have set your heart on seeking God.”
Read word by wordThey abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and idols. So wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.
Read word by wordWhen all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own property.
Read word by wordFor he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.
Read word by wordHis prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the Records of the Seers.
Read word by wordIn the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.
Read word by wordThen in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
Read word by wordHe tore down the altars and Asherah poles, crushed the idols to powder, and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
Read word by wordThey will not look to the altars they have fashioned with their hands or to the Asherahs and incense altars they have made with their fingers.
Read word by wordTherefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.
Read word by wordEven their children remember their altars and Asherah poles by the green trees and on the high hills.
Read word by wordI will root out the Asherah poles from your midst and demolish your cities.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.13
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