Ashera(h) = "groves (for idol worship)"

1. a Babylonian (Astarte)-Canaanite goddess (of fortune and happiness), the supposed consort of Baal, her images

   1. the goddess, goddesses

   2. her images

   3. sacred trees or poles set up near an altar

sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative

high place, ridge, height, bamah (technical name for cultic platform)

1. high place, mountain

2. high places, battlefields

3. high places (as places of worship)

4. funeral mound?

to cut, hew, chop, cut down, hew down, hew off, cut off, cut in two, shave off

1. (Qal) to hew, chop in two

2. (Niphal) to be chopped off, be hewn off

3. (Piel) to cut off or down in two, hew off or down in two

4. (Pual) to chop down, hew down

altar

pillar, mastaba, stump

1. pillar

   1. as monument, personal memorial

   2. with an altar

2. stock, stump (of tree)

foreign, alien, foreignness, that which is foreign

1. foreignness, foreign gods

2. alien, foreigner

3. foreign (vanities)

to turn aside, depart

1. (Qal)

   1. to turn aside, turn in unto

   2. to depart, depart from way, avoid

   3. to be removed

   4. to come to an end

2. (Polel) to turn aside

3. (Hiphil)

   1. to cause to turn aside, cause to depart, remove, take away, put away, depose

   2. to put aside, leave undone, retract, reject, abolish

4. (Hophal) to be taken away, be removed

to break, break in pieces

1. (Qal)

   1. break, break in or down, rend violently, wreck, crush, quench

   2. to break, rupture (fig)

2. (Niphal)

   1. to be broken, be maimed, be crippled, be wrecked

   2. to be broken, be crushed (fig)

3. (Piel) to shatter, break

4. (Hiphil) to cause to break out, bring to the birth

5. (Hophal) to be broken, be shattered