אֲשֵׁרָה
Asherah
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H842 appears — 40 distinct verses across 9 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus 1 verse
Deuteronomy 3 verses
- Deuteronomy 7:5 וַ/אֲשֵֽׁירֵ/הֶם֙ conj + n Proper + sfx pers 3mp But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.
- Deuteronomy 12:3 וַ/אֲשֵֽׁרֵי/הֶם֙ conj + n Proper + sfx pers 3mp and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place.
- Deuteronomy 16:21 אֲשֵׁרָ֖ה n Proper You shall not plant you an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make you.
Judges 5 verses
- Judges 3:7 הָ/אֲשֵׁרֽוֹת ptcl def.art + n Proper The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
- Judges 6:25 הָ/אֲשֵׁרָ֥ה ptcl def.art + n Proper It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, Take your father's bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it;
- Judges 6:26 הָ/אֲשֵׁרָ֖ה ptcl def.art + n Proper and build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in the orderly manner, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.
- Judges 6:28 וְ/הָ/אֲשֵׁרָ֥ה conj + ptcl def.art + n Proper When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bull was offered on the altar that was built.
- Judges 6:30 הָ/אֲשֵׁרָ֥ה ptcl def.art + n Proper Then the men of the city said to Joash, Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it.
1 Kings 5 verses
- 1 Kings 14:15 אֲשֵׁ֣רֵי/הֶ֔ם n Proper + sfx pers 3mp For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking Yahweh to anger.
- 1 Kings 14:23 וַ/אֲשֵׁרִ֑ים conj + n Proper For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
- 1 Kings 15:13 לָ/אֲשֵׁרָ֑ה prep det + n Proper Also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
- 1 Kings 16:33 הָ/אֲשֵׁרָ֑ה ptcl def.art + n Proper Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did yet more to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
- 1 Kings 18:19 הָֽ/אֲשֵׁרָה֙ ptcl def.art + n Proper Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred fifty, and the prophets of the Asherah four hundred, who eat at Jezebel's table.
2 Kings 11 verses
- 2 Kings 13:6 הָ/אֲשֵׁרָ֔ה ptcl def.art + n Proper Nevertheless they didn't depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin, but walked therein: and there remained the Asherah also in Samaria.)
- 2 Kings 17:10 וַ/אֲשֵׁרִ֑ים conj + n Proper and they set them up pillars and Asherim on every high hill, and under every green tree;
- 2 Kings 17:16 אֲשֵׁירָ֗ה n Proper They forsook all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the host of the sky, and served Baal.
- 2 Kings 18:4 הָֽ/אֲשֵׁרָ֑ה ptcl def.art + n Proper He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for to those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.
- 2 Kings 21:3 אֲשֵׁרָה֙ n Proper For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshiped all the host of the sky, and served them.
- 2 Kings 21:7 הָ/אֲשֵׁרָ֖ה ptcl def.art + n Proper He set the engraved image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which Yahweh 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, will I put my name forever;
- 2 Kings 23:4 וְ/לָֽ/אֲשֵׁרָ֔ה conj + prep det + n Proper The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth out of the temple of Yahweh all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of the sky, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried the ashes of them to Bethel.
- 2 Kings 23:6 הָ/אֲשֵׁרָה֩ ptcl def.art + n Proper He brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust of it on the graves of the common people.
- 2 Kings 23:7 לָ/אֲשֵׁרָֽה prep det + n Proper He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Yahweh, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
- 2 Kings 23:14 הָ/אֲשֵׁרִ֑ים ptcl def.art + n Proper He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.
- 2 Kings 23:15 אֲשֵׁרָֽה n Proper Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.
2 Chronicles 11 verses
- 2 Chronicles 14:3 הָ/אֲשֵׁרִֽים ptcl def.art + n Proper for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim,
- 2 Chronicles 15:16 לַ/אֲשֵׁרָ֖ה prep + n Proper Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
- 2 Chronicles 17:6 הָ/אֲשֵׁרִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n Proper His heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh: and furthermore he took away the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 19:3 הָ/אֲשֵׁרוֹת֙ ptcl def.art + n Proper Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.
- 2 Chronicles 24:18 הָ/אֲשֵׁרִ֖ים ptcl def.art + n Proper They forsook the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.
- 2 Chronicles 31:1 הָ/אֲשֵׁרִ֡ים ptcl def.art + n Proper Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke in pieces the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
- 2 Chronicles 33:3 אֲשֵׁר֔וֹת n Proper For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the host of the sky, and served them.
- 2 Chronicles 33:19 הָ/אֲשֵׁרִ֣ים ptcl def.art + n Proper His prayer also, and how [God] was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.
- 2 Chronicles 34:3 וְ/הָ֣/אֲשֵׁרִ֔ים conj + ptcl def.art + n Proper For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images.
- 2 Chronicles 34:4 וְ֠/הָ/אֲשֵׁרִים conj + ptcl def.art + n Proper They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and the sun-images that were on high above them he hewed down; and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves [of those] who had sacrificed to them.
- 2 Chronicles 34:7 הָ/אֲשֵׁרִ֤ים ptcl def.art + n Proper He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the engraved images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.
Isaiah 2 verses
- Isaiah 17:8 וְ/הָ/אֲשֵׁרִ֖ים conj + ptcl def.art + n Proper They shall not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they have respect to that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.
- Isaiah 27:9 אֲשֵׁרִ֖ים n Proper Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in sunder, [so that] the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.
Jeremiah 1 verse
Micah 1 verse
About this entry
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אשרה — transliterated ʼăshêrâh — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Asherah.” Debuting at Exodus 34:13, it then recurs through the corpus. Spanning 40 verses in 9 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in 2 Kings (28% of all occurrences). Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H842 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 40
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 40 distinct verses.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #909
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 909 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 40 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Kings 11 verses 28%
- 2 Chronicles 11 verses 28%
- Judges 5 verses 13%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 40 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 25 verses · 63%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 11 verses · 28%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 4 verses · 10%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Groves 24×, Grove 15×
- American Standard Version: Asherim 19×, Asherah 14×, Asheroth 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Asherah poles 21×, Asherah pole 13×, Asherah 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Asherah 20×, Asherim 9×, Asherahs 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H842 across 40 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H842 across 40 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H842 across 40 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H842 across 43 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 5 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- a. 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. e.g. 1 Kings 18:19
- b. 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. e.g. 1 Kings 16:33
Pl
- אֲשֵׁרוֹת
- a. the goddess Ju 3:7 (prob. error for עַשְׁתָּרֹת 𝔙). e.g. Judges 3:7
- b. 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.) e.g. 2 Chronicles 19:3
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
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.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אשר (ʼâshar) (H833) — to go straight.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אַשָּׁרָה
- , f. legal attestation. Y. Gitt. IX, 50ᶜ bot. אַשָּׁרַת הדיינין; v. אַשַּׁרְתָּא.
אֲשֵׁרָה
- , v. אֲשֵּׁירָה
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 36 distinct written forms H842 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הָ/אֲשֵׁרִ֖ים | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 17:6 | 2 |
| הָ/אֲשֵׁרָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 21:7 | 2 |
| הָ/אֲשֵׁרָ֥ה | Noun, Proper | Judges 6:25 | 2 |
| וַ/אֲשֵׁרִ֑ים | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 14:23 | 2 |
| אֲשֵׁ֣רֵי/הֶ֔ם | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 14:15 | 1 |
| אֲשֵׁירֶ֖י/ךָ | Noun, Proper | Micah 5:14 | 1 |
| אֲשֵׁירָ֗ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 17:16 | 1 |
| אֲשֵׁר֔וֹת | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 33:3 | 1 |
| אֲשֵׁרִ֖ים | Noun, Proper | Isaiah 27:9 | 1 |
| אֲשֵׁרָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 16:21 | 1 |
| אֲשֵׁרָ֖י/ו | Noun, Proper | Exodus 34:13 | 1 |
| אֲשֵׁרָֽה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 23:15 | 1 |
| אֲשֵׁרָה֙ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 21:3 | 1 |
| הָ/אֲשֵׁרִ֑ים | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 23:14 | 1 |
| הָ/אֲשֵׁרִ֡ים | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 31:1 | 1 |
| הָ/אֲשֵׁרִ֣ים | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 33:19 | 1 |
| הָ/אֲשֵׁרִ֤ים | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 34:7 | 1 |
| הָ/אֲשֵׁרִֽים | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 14:3 | 1 |
| הָ/אֲשֵׁרָ֑ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 16:33 | 1 |
| הָ/אֲשֵׁרָ֔ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 13:6 | 1 |
| הָ/אֲשֵׁרָה֩ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 23:6 | 1 |
| הָ/אֲשֵׁרֽוֹת | Noun, Proper | Judges 3:7 | 1 |
| הָ/אֲשֵׁרוֹת֙ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 19:3 | 1 |
| הָֽ/אֲשֵׁרָ֑ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 18:4 | 1 |
| הָֽ/אֲשֵׁרָה֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 18:19 | 1 |
| וְ/הָ/אֲשֵׁרִ֖ים | Noun, Proper | Isaiah 17:8 | 1 |
| וְ/הָ/אֲשֵׁרָ֥ה | Noun, Proper | Judges 6:28 | 1 |
| וְ/הָ֣/אֲשֵׁרִ֔ים | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 34:3 | 1 |
| וְ/לָֽ/אֲשֵׁרָ֔ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 23:4 | 1 |
| וְ֠/הָ/אֲשֵׁרִים | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 34:4 | 1 |
| וַ/אֲשֵֽׁירֵ/הֶם֙ | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 7:5 | 1 |
| וַ/אֲשֵֽׁרֵי/הֶם֙ | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 12:3 | 1 |
| וַ/אֲשֵׁרֵי/הֶ֖ם | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 17:2 | 1 |
| לַ/אֲשֵׁרָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 15:16 | 1 |
| לָ/אֲשֵׁרָ֑ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 15:13 | 1 |
| לָ/אֲשֵׁרָֽה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 23:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H842, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- אשר ʼesher H835 blessed
- אשר ʼôsher H837 happiness
- אשר ʼâshur H838 step
- אשרנא ʼushsharnâʼ H846 wall
- תאשור tᵉʼashshûwr H8391 box tree
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Asherah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
And pl. Asherim in Revised Version, instead of "grove" and "groves" of the Authorized Version. This was the name of a sensual Canaanitish goddess Astarte, the feminine of the Assyrian Ishtar. Its symbol was the stem of a tree deprived of its boughs, and rudely shaped into an image, and planted in the ground. Such religious symbols ("groves") are frequently alluded to in Scripture (Ex. 34:13; Judg. 6:25; 2 Kings 23:6; 1 Kings 16:33, etc.). These images were also sometimes made of silver or of carved stone (2 Kings 21:7; "the graven image of Asherah," R.V.). (See GROVE .).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(straight), the name of a Phoenician goddess, or rather of the idol itself (Authorized Version "grove"). Asherah is closely connected with Ashtoreth and her worship, (Judges 3:7) comp. Judg 2:3; 6:25; 1Kin 18:19 Ashtoreth being, perhaps, the proper name of the goddess, whilst Asherah is the name of her image or symbol, which was of wood. See (Judges 6:25-30; 2 Kings 23:14)
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 37 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 40 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Exodus 34:13
- Deuteronomy 7:5
- Judges 3:7
- 1 Kings 15:13
- 2 Kings 13:6
- 2 Chronicles 14:3
- Isaiah 17:8
- Micah 5:14
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
