1 Kings 14:23
Old Testament • 9 words with Strong's data
"For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree."
Word-by-Word Analysis
בָּנָה
bânâh
to build (literally and figuratively)
עֶלְיוֹן
ʻelyôwn
an elevation, i.e. (adj.) lofty (compar.); as title, the Supreme
אֲשֵׁרָה
ʼăshêrâh
Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same
עֶלְיוֹן
ʻelyôwn
an elevation, i.e. (adj.) lofty (compar.); as title, the Supreme
הַר
har
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
רַעֲנָן
raʻănân
verdant; by analogy, new; figuratively, prosperous
עֵץ
ʻêts
a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)
Key Terms in This Verse
אֲשֵׁרָה ʼăshêrâh
Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same
Study H842 →עֶלְיוֹן ʻelyôwn
an elevation, i.e. (adj.) lofty (compar.); as title, the Supreme
Study H5945 →עֶלְיוֹן ʻelyôwn
an elevation, i.e. (adj.) lofty (compar.); as title, the Supreme
Study H5945 →Cross References
Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth.
For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because t...
Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the L...
Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
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