- verses
- 1
- first named
- 2 Kings 17:30
- last named
- 2 Kings 17:30
Description
Ashima in the text
Ashima is mentioned briefly in 2Ki.17.30 as a deity worshipped by the people of Hamath, a city in Syria. After the Assyrian king resettled various peoples in Samaria, each group continued to worship their own gods, including the Hamathites who made Ashima their god.
Little is known about Ashima beyond this single reference in the Bible. The name Ashima may be derived from the Semitic root "šm," meaning "name" or "heaven." Some scholars suggest that Ashima could be a variant of the Semitic goddess Asherah or a local deity specific to Hamath.
The worship of Ashima by the Hamathites in Samaria illustrates the religious syncretism that occurred when people from different cultures were resettled in Israel by the Assyrians. This practice of worshipping foreign gods alongside or in place of the Lord was condemned by the biblical writers as a violation of the covenant relationship between God and His people.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Stands in the same events as
- Nergal1 event
- Nibhaz1 event
- Succoth-benoth1 event
- Tartak1 event
The pattern
Where Ashima is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in 2 Kings (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Sources