2 Kings 17:10
Old Testament • 7 words with Strong's data
"And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:"
Word-by-Word Analysis
שׂוּם
sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
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 →שׂוּם sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
Study H7760 →Cross References
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
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.
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