Asherah
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an ancient Semitic goddess, sometimes identified with Ashtoreth and Astarte, worshiped by the Phoenicians and Canaanites.
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any of various upright wooden objects serving as a sacred symbol of Asherah.
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These include the veneration of El, the head of the pantheon and often associated with Yahweh, and of Yahweh’s consort Asherah, the storm god Baal, the fertility goddess Astarte, and many others.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Ms. Martin, along with artist Asherah Weiss, worked with students at West Side on a project they called “PepToc”.
From NewsForKids.net ● Mar. 22, 2022
Her videos feature her and her daughter Asherah, 9, cooking a pound cake and laughing and later playing “The Cup Song” at the kitchen table of their D.C. home.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2021
Asherah or Asharah; plural, Asharth translated in the Septuagint and Latin vulgate, a tree, or "grove," in which they have been followed by most modern versions, including the English.
From Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other by Inman, Thomas
Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, wherewith he made Israel to sin, but walked therein: and there remained the Asherah also in Samaria.
From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall
The real form was doubtless an "Asherim," a modified palm-tree, as we have already shown.
From Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other by Inman, Thomas
Images and Asherim deformed every hill-top and stood under every spreading tree.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Maclaren, Alexander
Asherim are not alluded to, molten images are rejected, particularly by E. Here perhaps a correction of the ancient legend has already taken place in JE.
From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius
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