单词 | asherah |
释义 | Asherahn. A wooden post, pillar, or trunk of a tree used as the symbol of the goddess Ashera, occurring near the altar in Canaanitish high places devoted to the worship of Baal. Also the goddess herself, associated with Baal in Syrian, Phœnician, and Hebrew heathen worship. (Cf. grove n. 2a.) ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > other deities > [noun] > Syrian > Asherah grove1535 Asherah1860 society > faith > artefacts > symbol (general) > non-Christian symbols or images > [noun] > bush or tree > trunk of Asherah1860 1860 F. W. Gotch in W. Smith Dict. Bible I. 120/2 Asherah is the name of the image or symbol of the goddess. This symbol seems in all cases to have been of wood.., and the most probable etymology of the term (..to be straight..) indicates that it was formed of the straight stem of a tree, whether living or set up for the purpose. 1884 Bible (R.V.) Exod. xxxiv. 13 Ye shall cut down their Asherim. Note. Probably the wooden symbols of a goddess Asherah. 1884 Bible (R.V.) Deut. xvi. 21 Thou shalt not plant thee an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of the Lord thy God. 1886 C. R. Conder Syrian Stone-lore v. 189 The ‘hangings for the grove’, or robe for the Asherah—the sacred tree erected even in the Jerusalem Temple in Josiah's time. 1912 H. F. Hamilton People of God I. ii. iv. 55 Poles, which served as substitutes for trees, called asherim. 1925 W. Ewing J. E. H. Thomson xviii. 259 The altars, the pillars, and Asherahs were not destroyed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1860 |
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