Strong's #842: 'asherah (pronounced ash-ay-raw')

or masheyrah {ash-ay-raw'}; from 833; happy; Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same:-- grove. Compare 6253.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ / ׁ

'ăshêrâh / 'ăshêyrâh

Ashera(h) = "groves (for idol worship)"

1) a Babylonian (Astarte)-Canaanite goddess (of fortune and happiness), the supposed consort of Baal, her images

1a) the goddess, goddesses

1b) her images

1c) sacred trees or poles set up near an altar

Part of Speech: noun proper feminine

Relation: from H833

Usage:

This word is used 40 times:

 

Exodus 34:13: "break their images, and cut down their groves:"
Deuteronomy 7:5: "their altars, and break down their images, their groves, and burn their graven images with fire."
Deuteronomy 12:3: "their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods,"
Deuteronomy 16:21: "Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar"
Judges 3:7: "and served Baalim and the groves."
Judges 6:25: "of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by"
Judges 6:26: "and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down."
Judges 6:28: "the altar of Baal and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second"
Judges 6:30: "of Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that was by"
1 Kings 14:15: "them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger."
1 Kings 14:23: "built them high places, and images, and groves, on high hill,"
1 Kings 15:13: "from being queen, because an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed"
1 Kings 16:33: "And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more"
1 Kings 18:19: "hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's"
2 Kings 13:6: "Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.)"
2 Kings 17:10: "And they set them up images and groves in every high hill,"
2 Kings 17:16: "even two calves, and made a grove, and worshiped all the host of heaven,"
2 Kings 18:4: "the images, the groves, and broke in pieces the brazen serpent that"
2 Kings 21:3: "altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king"
2 Kings 21:7: "And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house,"
2 Kings 23:4: "all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven:"
2 Kings 23:6: "And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without"
2 Kings 23:7: "the women wove hangings for the grove."
2 Kings 23:14: "the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones"
2 Kings 23:15: "and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove."
2 Chronicles 14:3: "and cut down the groves:"
2 Chronicles 15:16: "her from being queen, she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down"
2 Chronicles 17:6: "he took away and groves out of Judah."
2 Chronicles 19:3: "in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart"
2 Chronicles 24:18: "of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon"
2 Chronicles 31:1: "of Judah, and broke the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places"
2 Chronicles 33:3: "altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshiped all the host of heaven,"
2 Chronicles 33:19: "high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold,"
2 Chronicles 34:3: "Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images."
2 Chronicles 34:4: "above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces,"
2 Chronicles 34:7: "And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder,"
Isaiah 17:8: "that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images."
Isaiah 27:9: "of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up."
Jeremiah 17:2: "Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees"
Micah 5:14: "And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities."