Asherah
Americannoun
plural
Asherim, Asherahs-
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
He was twenty-five years old when he came on the throne, and in the twenty-nine years he ruled, "he removed the high places, and brake the pillars, and cut down the Asherah."
From A Trip Abroad by Janes, Don Carlos
On that night, Gideon went out with ten men, and threw down the image of Baal, and cut in pieces the wooden image of Asherah, and destroyed the altar before these idols.
From The Wonder Book of Bible Stories by Marshall, Logan
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