--- title: אֲשֵׁרָה — grove. Compare · The Tanakh dictionary description: אֲשֵׁרָה (842), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 40 times: grove. Compare. BDB 1906: n.pr.f. Ashera. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/842.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [א](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1488-8.md)‎ / אֲשֵׁרָה‎ # אֲשֵׁרָה «אֲשֵׁרָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **grove. Compare** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 40 times · **Key:** 842 · **BDB:** אֲשֵׁרָה ### Glosses poles (15); pole (8); Asherah (4) ### Meaning (OSHB) grove. Compare [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/842/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) n.pr.f. Ashera [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/842/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** 2 K 17:16 n.pr.f. Ashera (Assyrian n.pr.f. Aš-ra-tu, c. sign for deity, in Canaanitish n.pr. Abad-Ašratum, servant of A. SchrZA 1888, 363, cf. Wkl \& AbelThontafelfund v. El Amarna ii. No. 77, 1. 9, \& SayceRP2. ii. 67, iii. 71; on deriv. cf. Assyrian aširat, adj. fem. gracious, COTGloss) see now also GFMEB Asherah Dr Dt 16:21 AllenDB Asherah, all doubtful as to Can. goddess Asherah; question left open by ZimKAT3. 436 ff. (on Sem. goddess Aširtu-Ašratu Id. ib. 432 ff.); but v. JeremAT1 im Licht d. Alten Orients 207 (name of goddess Aširat in letter found at Taanach by Sellin (1902–3) and Id. ib. 37. 237) (Oppenheim’s find at Ras el-’Ain in Mesop., stone shaft with veiled head as top, supposed to identify post with goddess; if 2 K 23:7 refers to draped Asherim \[v. on text Benz Bur\], this even more plausible), Id. ib. 23, 208 f., 286. On pictorial representations of Asherah-symbol v. WHWardAJSL xix. 1 (Oct. 1902).:—usually with the art.: prob. a Canaanitish goddess of fortune \& happiness; having prophets 1 K 18:19, an image 15:13 = 2 Ch 15:16 2 K 21:7, sacred vessels 2 K 23:4, houses v 7. a symbol of this goddess, a sacred tree or pole set up near an altar 1 K 16:33 2 K 13:6; 17:16; 18:4; 21:3; 23:6, 15; prohibited Dt 16:21; burnt by Gideon Ju 6:25, 26, 28, 30. אֲשֵׁרוֹת the goddess Ju 3:7 (prob. error for עַשְׁתָּרֹת 𝔙). sacred trees or poles 2 Ch 19:3; 33:3; elsewhere אֲשֵׁרִים id. Is 27:9 + 12 times; sf. Mi 5:13 + 5 times;—Ex 34:13 (J) Dt 7:5; 12:3 Is 17:8; 27:9 Je 17:2 Mi 5:13 1 K 14:15, 23 2 K 17:10, 23:14 2 Ch 14:2; 17:6; 24:18; 31:1; 33:19; 34:3, 4, 7.—(Cf. also StaZAW 1881, 344 f. RSSem i. 171 f., 175n. WeH 235, who think א׳ only the sacred pole.) Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 40 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «אֲשֵׁרָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/842/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Micah 5:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.5.13/) וְנָתַשְׁתִּ֥י אֲשֵׁירֶ֖יךָ מִקִּרְבֶּ֑ךָ וְהִשְׁמַדְתִּ֖י עָרֶֽיךָ׃ *Word for word:* and I.will.pluck.up poles your.Asherah from midst your and I.will.destroy cities your *JPS 1917:* And I will pluck up thy Asherim out of the midst of thee; and I will destroy thine enemies. [Deuteronomy 16:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.16.21/) לֹֽא־תִטַּ֥ע לְךָ֛ אֲשֵׁרָ֖ה כָּל־עֵ֑ץ אֵ֗צֶל מִזְבַּ֛ח יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר תַּעֲשֶׂה־לָּֽךְ׃ס *Word for word:* not you.will.plant for yourself an.Asherah.pole any tree beside the.altar of.Yahweh God your which you.will.make for yourself *JPS 1917:* Thou shalt not plant thee an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee. - ← previous: [אֲשַׂרְאֵלָה](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/841.md) - next →: [אָשֵׁרִי](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/843.md) - ↑ back to [א](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1488-8.md)