Definition

Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same

Etymology

or אֲשֵׁירָה; from H833 (אָשַׁר); happy;

Where the KJV renders it

• grove. Compare H6253 (עַשְׁתֹּרֶת)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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