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Asherah|aˈʃiːra|
Pl. Asherahs, Asherim |-rɪm|.
[Heb. Ashērāh.]
A wooden post, pillar, or trunk of a tree used as the symbol of the goddess Ashera, occurring near the altar in Canaanitish high places devoted to the worship of Baal. Also the goddess herself, associated with Baal in Syrian, Phœnician, and Hebrew heathen worship. (Cf. grove 2 a.)
1863G. Grove in W. Smith Dict. Bible I. 120/2 Asherah is the name of the image or symbol of the goddess. This symbol seems in all cases to have been of wood, and the most probable etymology of the term (..to be straight..) indicates that it was formed of the straight stem of a tree, whether living or set up for the purpose. 1884Bible (R.V.) Exod. xxxiv. 13 Ye shall cut down their Asherim. Note. Probably the wooden symbols of a goddess Asherah. Ibid., Deut. xvi. 21 Thou shalt not plant thee an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of the Lord thy God. 1886Conder Syrian Stone-Lore v. 189 The ‘hangings for the grove’, or robe for the Asherah—the sacred tree erected even in the Jerusalem Temple in Josiah's time. 1912H. F. Hamilton People of God I. ii. iv. 55 Poles, which served as substitutes for trees, called asherim. 1925W. Ewing J. E. H. Thomson xviii. 259 The altars, the pillars, and Asherahs were not destroyed. |