842 - Asherah

Strong's Concordance

Original word: אֲשֵׁרָה
Transliteration: Asherah
Definition (short): Asherim
Definition (full): a Phoenician goddess, also an image of the same

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: of foreign origin
Definition: a Phoenician goddess, also an image of the same
NASB Translation: Asherah (18), Asherim (20), Asheroth (2).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Or masheyrah {ash-ay-raw'}; from 'ashar; happy; Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same -- grove. Compare Ashtoreth.

see HEBREW 'ashar

see HEBREW Ashtoreth

KJV: But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
NASB: "But rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and cut down their Asherim
KJV: But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
NASB: "But thus you shall do to them: you shall tear down their altars, and smash their sacred pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.
KJV: And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
NASB: "You shall tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and burn their Asherim with fire, and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods and obliterate their name from that place.
KJV: Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
NASB: "You shall not plant for yourself an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of the LORD your God, which you shall make for yourself.
KJV: And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
NASB: The sons of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth.