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Asherah

Human-made Things in the Bible

The Asherah was a wooden pole used to worship the goddess Asherah.

Pictures

Bronze model from Elam with a pole used as a cultic object for the goddess Asherah
Bronze model from Elam with a pole used as a cultic object for the goddess Asherah© Louvre Museum, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

In the Bible

The Hebrew and Greek words for it, and every verse where each is used

אֲשֵׁרָה ’asherah · 32 verses

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Sources

Plants and Trees in the Bible, Animals in the Bible and Human-made Things in the Bible © United Bible Societies, 2025 (adapted from Each According to its Kind: Plants and Trees in the Bible by Robert Koops, All Creatures Great and Small: Living Things in the Bible by Edward R. Hope, and The Works of Their Hands: Man-made Things in the Bible by Ray Pritz), CC BY-SA 4.0; adapted for eRhema