{"query": "Easton: Asherah", "count": 8, "results": [{"id": "card_n_d23fe251ed6d", "title": "Easton: Asherah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "And pl. Asherim in Revised Version, instead of “grove” and “groves” of the Authorized Version. This was the name of a sensual Canaanitish goddess Astarte, the feminine of the Assyrian Ishtar. Its symb"}, {"id": "card_n_10125cc415d2", "title": "Easton: Grove", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. ‘asherah, properly a wooden image, or a pillar representing Ashtoreth, a sensual Canaanitish goddess, probably usually set up in a grove (2 Kings 21:7; 23:4). In the Revised Version the word"}, {"id": "card_c_a09f6ca48bee", "title": "Easton: Asherah cites 1 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 1 Kings 16:33 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_5c9dcf30ef4a", "title": "Easton: Asherah cites 2 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 2 Kings 23:6; 2 Kings 21:7 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_21c47ce5d677", "title": "Easton: Hanging", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(as a punishment), a mark of infamy inflicted on the dead bodies of criminals (Deut. 21:23) rather than our modern mode of punishment. Criminals were first strangled and then hanged (Nu. 25:4; Deut. 2"}, {"id": "card_n_4af5842426e5", "title": "Easton: Harlot", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. zonah (Gen. 34:31; 38:15). In verses 21, 22 the Hebrew word used in kedeshah, i.e., a woman consecrated or devoted to prostitution in connection with the abominable worship of Asherah or Ast"}, {"id": "card_n_86cd9a1e1fce", "title": "Easton: Gideon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called also Jerubbaal (Judg. 6:29, 32), was the first of the judges whose history is circumstantially narrated (Judg. 6-8). His calling is the commencement of the second period in the history of the j"}, {"id": "card_n_eeb3273afc89", "title": "Easton: Jezebel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Chaste, the daughter of Ethbaal, the king of the Zidonians, and the wife of Ahab, the king of Israel (1 Kings 16:31). This was the “first time that a king of Israel had allied himself by marriage with"}]}