ashera · Asherah

What it means

ashera (אֲשֵׁרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Asherah”.

A Canaanite goddess, and the pole or sacred tree that stood for her beside the altars.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Asherahs ×22
• Asherah ×18

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Deuteronomy×3
• Judges×5
• 1 Kings×5
• 2 Kings×11
• 2 Chronicles×11
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Micah×1

• Exodus 34:13

  But their altars you shall tear down, and their standing stones you shall break, and their Asherahs you shall cut down.

• Deuteronomy 7:5

  But thus you shall do to them: their altars you shall tear down, their standing stones you shall break, their Asherahs you shall cut down, and their carved images you shall burn with fire.

• Deuteronomy 12:3

  You shall tear down their altars, smash their standing stones, burn their Asherahs with fire, cut down the carved images of their gods, and wipe out their name from that place.

• Deuteronomy 16:21

  You shall not plant for yourself an Asherah, any tree, beside the altar of YHWH your Elohim that you make for yourself.

• Judges 3:7

  The sons of Israel did what was evil in the eyes of YHWH; they forgot YHWH their Elohim and served the Baals and the Asherahs.

• Judges 6:25

  That night YHWH said to him, “Take the bull of the oxen that belongs to your father, and the second bull, seven years old, and tear down the altar of Baal that belongs to your father, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it.

• Judges 6:26

  Then build an altar to YHWH your Elohim on the top of this stronghold, in the proper order; and take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah that you cut down.”

• Judges 6:28

  The men of the city rose early in the morning, and look, the altar of Baal was torn down, and the Asherah that was beside it was cut down, and the second bull was offered on the altar that had been built.

• Judges 6:30

  The men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, so that he may die, for he has torn down the altar of Baal and has cut down the Asherah that was beside it.”

• 1 Kings 14:15

  YHWH will strike Israel, as the reed sways in the water; and he will uproot Israel from off this good land that he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River Euphrates, because they have made their Asherahs, provoking YHWH to anger.

• 1 Kings 14:23

  They also built for themselves high places and standing stones and Asherahs on every high hill and under every leafy tree.

• 1 Kings 15:13

  And also Maacah his mother he removed from being lady, because she had made a horrid image for Asherah; and Asa cut down her horrid image and burned it at the brook Kidron.

• 1 Kings 16:33

  Ahab also made the Asherah; and Ahab did still more to provoke to anger YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

• 1 Kings 18:19

  Now then, send, gather to me all Israel at Mount Carmel, and the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at the table of Jezebel.”

• 2 Kings 13:6

  Nevertheless they did not turn away from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, by which he made Israel sin; in it he walked; and also the Asherah remained standing in Samaria.

• 2 Kings 17:10

  They set up for themselves standing stones and Asherahs on every high hill and under every leafy tree.

• 2 Kings 17:16

  They abandoned all the commandments of YHWH their Elohim and made for themselves a cast image, two calves; and they made an Asherah, and bowed down to all the army of the heavens, and served Baal.

• 2 Kings 18:4

  He removed the high places, broke the standing stones, and cut down the Asherah; and he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the sons of Israel had been burning incense to it; and it was called Nehushtan.

• 2 Kings 21:3

  He built again the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed; he raised up altars for Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and he bowed down to all the army of the heavens and served them.

• 2 Kings 21:7

  He put the carved image of the Asherah that he had made in the house of which YHWH had said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.

• 2 Kings 23:4

  The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the keepers of the threshold to bring out from the temple of YHWH all the utensils made for Baal, for the Asherah, and for all the army of the heavens; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their dust to Bethel.

• 2 Kings 23:6

  He brought out the Asherah from the house of YHWH, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and ground it to dust, and threw its dust on the grave of the sons of the people.

• 2 Kings 23:7

  He tore down the houses of the sacred male prostitutes that were in the house of YHWH, where the women wove houses for the Asherah.

• 2 Kings 23:14

  He broke the standing stones, cut down the Asherahs, and filled their places with human bones.

• 2 Kings 23:15

  Moreover, the altar that was at Bethel, the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat made, who made Israel sin, even that altar and the high place he tore down; and he burned the high place, ground it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

• 2 Chronicles 14:3

  He removed the foreign altars and the high places, broke the standing stones, and cut down the Asherahs.

• 2 Chronicles 15:16

  And also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being lady, because she had made for Asherah a horrid image; and Asa cut down her horrid image, ground it to dust and burned it at the brook Kidron.

• 2 Chronicles 17:6

  His heart was exalted in the ways of YHWH; and moreover he removed the high places and the Asherahs from Judah.

• 2 Chronicles 19:3

  But good things are found in you, for you have removed the Asherahs from the land and have set your heart to seek Elohim.”

• 2 Chronicles 24:18

  They abandoned the house of YHWH, Elohim of their fathers, and served the Asherahs and the idols; and there was wrath on Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.

• 2 Chronicles 31:1

  When all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke the standing stones, cut down the Asherahs, and tore down the high places and the altars from all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had finished. Then all the sons of Israel returned, each to his possession, to their cities.

• 2 Chronicles 33:3

  He built again the high places that Hezekiah his father had torn down; he erected altars for the Baals and made Asherahs, and bowed down to all the army of the heavens and served them.

• 2 Chronicles 33:19

  His prayer and how he let himself be entreated by him, and all his sin and his unfaithfulness, and the places where he built high places and set up the Asherahs and the carved images before he humbled himself, they are written in the words of Hozai.

• 2 Chronicles 34:3

  In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a youth, he began to seek the Elohim of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherahs, the carved images, and the molten images.

• 2 Chronicles 34:4

  They tore down before him the altars of the Baals, and the incense altars that were high above them he cut down; and the Asherahs, the carved images, and the molten images he broke and ground to dust, and scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

• 2 Chronicles 34:7

  he tore down the altars, and the Asherahs and the carved images he crushed to dust, and all the incense altars he cut down throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

• Isaiah 17:8

  And he will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and what his fingers have made he will not see, neither the Asherahs nor the incense altars.

• Isaiah 27:9

  Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be expiated, and this is all the fruit of removing his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altar like stones of chalk crushed to pieces, Asherahs and incense altars will not rise.

• Jeremiah 17:2

  as their children remember their altars and their Asherahs beside the flourishing tree, on the high hills.

• Micah 5:14

  And I will uproot your Asherahs from among you, and destroy your cities.