אֲשֵׁרָהʼăshêrâh
proper name, feminine: Ashera
Pronunciation: ash-ay-raw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H842
Meanings
a. a Canaanitish goddess of fortune & happiness (1 Kings 18:19; 1 Kings 15:13; 2 Chronicles 15:16)
b. a symbol of this goddess, a sacred tree or pole set up near an altar (1 Kings 16:33; 2 Kings 13:6; 2 Kings 17:16)
a. the goddess (Judges 3:7)
b. sacred trees or poles (2 Chronicles 19:3; 2 Chronicles 33:3; Isaiah 27:9)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 40 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 34:13 Instead, you must break down their pagan altars, smash their sacred pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles.
- Deuteronomy 7:5 This is what you must do. You must break down their pagan altars and shatter their sacred pillars. Cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols.
- Deuteronomy 12:3 Break down their altars and smash their sacred pillars. Burn their Asherah poles and cut down their carved idols. Completely erase the names of their gods!
- Deuteronomy 16:21 “You must never set up a wooden Asherah pole beside the altar you build for the Lord your God.
- Judges 3:7 The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight. They forgot about the Lord their God, and they served the images of Baal and the Asherah poles.
- Judges 6:25 That night the Lord said to Gideon, “Take the second bull from your father’s herd, the one that is seven years old. Pull down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole standing beside it.
See every passage
- Exodus 34:13
- Deuteronomy 7:5, 12:3, 16:21
- Judges 3:7, 6:25, 6:26, 6:28, 6:30
- 1 Kings 14:15, 14:23, 15:13, 16:33, 18:19
- 2 Kings 13:6, 17:10, 17:16, 18:4, 21:3, 21:7, 23:4, 23:6, 23:7, 23:14, 23:15
- 2 Chronicles 14:3, 15:16, 17:6, 19:3, 24:18, 31:1, 33:3, 33:19, 34:3, 34:4, 34:7
- Isaiah 17:8, 27:9
- Jeremiah 17:2
- Micah 5:14
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).