Hebrew n-f-t · H842
אֲשֵׁרָה
asherahash-ay-raw'
Asherah
40 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼăshêrâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H842is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 36spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H842
Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same
The King James renders it: grove. Compare H6253 (עַשְׁתֹּרֶת).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
asherah is rendered "Asherah". It stands 40 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Eleven of the uses stand in 2 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 34:13Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.
- The Greek text spells it thirty-six different ways.
The first use
Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.
Exodus 34:13אֲשֵׁרָ֖יו
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eleven of the word's forty uses are in 2 Kings.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the Asherah poles9
- the Asherah pole7
- an Asherah pole3
- and Asherah poles their3
- and the Asherah poles3
- and Asherah poles2
- Asherah poles2
- the Asherah2
- and for the Asherah1
- and the Asherah pole1
- Asherah pole1
- Asherah poles its1
and 5 more, 40 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֲשֵׁדָה | ashedah | slope | Uses2 |
The words it stands beside
All 40, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
36 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הָאֲשֵׁרָ֥ה2
- הָאֲשֵׁרָ֖ה2
- הָאֲשֵׁרִ֖ים2
- וַאֲשֵׁרִ֑ים2
- אֲשֵׁירָ֗ה1
- אֲשֵׁירֶ֖יךָ1
- אֲשֵׁרָ֖ה1
- אֲשֵׁרָה֙1
- אֲשֵׁרָֽה׃1
- אֲשֵׁר֔וֹת1
- אֲשֵׁ֣רֵיהֶ֔ם1
- אֲשֵׁרָ֖יו1
and 24 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular9HTd/Ntfsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural7HTd/Ntmpa
- noun · feminine singular4HNtfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural3HC/Ntmpc/Sp3mp
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural3HC/Td/Ntmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural2HC/Ntmpa
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular2HRd/Ntfsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural2HTd/Ntfpa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1HC/Rd/Ntfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1HC/Td/Ntfsa
- noun · feminine plural1HNtfpa
- noun · masculine plural1HNtmpa
Exodus
one use
Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.
- אֲשֵׁרָ֖יוʾasheravnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: Asherah poles its
Deuteronomy
three uses
Instead, 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.
- וַאֲשֵֽׁירֵהֶם֙vaasheirehemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and Asherah poles their
Tear 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.
- וַאֲשֵֽׁרֵיהֶם֙vaashereihemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and Asherah poles their
Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,
- אֲשֵׁרָ֖הʾasherahnoun · feminine singulartagged: an Asherah pole
Judges
five uses
So the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.
- הָאֲשֵׁרֽוֹת׃haasherotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the Asherah poles
On 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.
- הָאֲשֵׁרָ֥הhaasherahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the Asherah pole
Then 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.”
- הָאֲשֵׁרָ֖הhaasherahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the Asherah pole
When 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.
- וְהָאֲשֵׁרָ֥הvehaasherahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the Asherah pole
Then 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.”
- הָאֲשֵׁרָ֥הhaasherahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the Asherah pole
1 Kings
five uses
For 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.
- אֲשֵׁ֣רֵיהֶ֔םʾashereihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: Asherah poles their
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
- וַאֲשֵׁרִ֑יםvaasherimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and Asherah poles
He 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.
- לָאֲשֵׁרָ֑הlaasherahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: to the Asherah pole
Then 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.
- הָאֲשֵׁרָ֑הhaasherahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the Asherah pole
Now 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.”
- הָֽאֲשֵׁרָה֙haasherahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the Asherah
2 Kings
eleven uses
Nevertheless, 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.
- הָאֲשֵׁרָ֔הhaasherahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the Asherah pole
They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
- וַאֲשֵׁרִ֑יםvaasherimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and Asherah poles
They 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.
- אֲשֵׁירָ֗הʾasheirahnoun · feminine singulartagged: an Asherah pole
He 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.
- הָֽאֲשֵׁרָ֑הhaasherahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the Asherah pole
For 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.
- אֲשֵׁרָה֙ʾasherahnoun · feminine singulartagged: an Asherah pole
Manasseh 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.
- הָאֲשֵׁרָ֖הhaasherahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the Asherah
Then 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.
- וְלָֽאֲשֵׁרָ֔הvelaasherahconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: and for the Asherah
He 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.
- הָאֲשֵׁרָה֩haasherahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the Asherah pole
He 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.
- לָאֲשֵׁרָֽה׃laasherahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: for the Asherah
He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.
- הָאֲשֵׁרִ֑יםhaasherimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the Asherah poles
He 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.
- אֲשֵׁרָֽה׃ʾasherahnoun · feminine singulartagged: Asherah pole
2 Chronicles
eleven uses
He removed the foreign altars and high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and chopped down the Asherah poles.
- הָאֲשֵׁרִֽים׃haasherimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the Asherah poles
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.
- לַאֲשֵׁרָ֖הlaasherahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: to an Asherah pole
And his heart took delight in the ways of the LORD; furthermore, he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.
- הָאֲשֵׁרִ֖יםhaasherimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the Asherah poles
However, some good is found in you, for you have removed the Asherah poles from the land and have set your heart on seeking God.”
- הָאֲשֵׁרוֹת֙haasherotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the Asherah poles
They 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.
- הָאֲשֵׁרִ֖יםhaasherimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the Asherah poles
When 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.
- הָאֲשֵׁרִ֡יםhaasherimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the Asherah poles
For 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.
- אֲשֵׁר֔וֹתʾasherotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: Asherah poles
His 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.
- הָאֲשֵׁרִ֣יםhaasherimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the Asherah poles
In 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.
- וְהָ֣אֲשֵׁרִ֔יםvehaasherimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the Asherah poles
Then 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.
- וְ֠הָאֲשֵׁרִיםvehaasherimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the Asherah poles
He 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.
- הָאֲשֵׁרִ֤יםhaasherimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the Asherah poles
Isaiah
two uses
They 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.
- וְהָאֲשֵׁרִ֖יםvehaasherimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the Asherah poles
Therefore 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.
- אֲשֵׁרִ֖יםʾasherimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: Asherah poles
Jeremiah
one use
Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles by the green trees and on the high hills.
- וַאֲשֵׁרֵיהֶ֖םvaashereihemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and Asherah poles their
Micah
one use
I will root out the Asherah poles from your midst and demolish your cities.
- אֲשֵׁירֶ֖יךָʾasheireikhanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: Asherah poles your
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
