For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
Groves, х 'Asheeriym (H842)] - Asherah, wooden or stone images of a symbolical tree, representing the host of heaven (cf. 2 Kings 21:7; 2 Kings 23:6; 2 Kings 23:15: see 'The Palaces of Nineveh and Persia,' p. 301); according to Gesenius, relievo figures of Astarte, and impure rites, that with unchecked license were observed in them. The description is suited to the character of the Canaanite worship.