Micah 5:14
Strong's Lexicon
I will root out
וְנָתַשְׁתִּ֥י (wə·nā·ṯaš·tî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5428: 1) to pull up, expel, root out, pluck up 1a) (Qal) to pull or pluck up 1b) (Niphal) to be plucked up 1c) (Hophal) to be plucked up

the Asherah poles
אֲשֵׁירֶ֖יךָ (’ă·šê·re·ḵā)
Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 842: Ashera(h) = 'groves (for idol worship)' 1) a Babylonian (Astarte)-Canaanite goddess (of fortune and happiness), the supposed consort of Baal, her images 1a) the goddess, goddesses 1b) her images 1c) sacred trees or poles set up near an altar

from your midst
מִקִּרְבֶּ֑ךָ (miq·qir·be·ḵā)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7130: 1) midst, among, inner part, middle 1a) inward part 1a1) physical sense 1a2) as seat of thought and emotion 1a3) as faculty of thought and emotion 1b) in the midst, among, from among (of a number of persons) 1c) entrails (of sacrificial animals)

and demolish
וְהִשְׁמַדְתִּ֖י (wə·hiš·maḏ·tî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 8045: 1) to destroy, exterminate, be destroyed, be exterminated 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to be annihilated, be exterminated 1a2) to be destroyed, be devastated 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to annihilate, exterminate 1b2) to destroy

your cities.
עָרֶֽיךָ׃ (‘ā·re·ḵā)
Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5892: 1) excitement, anguish 1a) of terror 2) city, town (a place of waking, guarded) 2a) city, town

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
I will root out the Asherah poles from your midst and demolish your cities.

Young's Literal Translation
And I have plucked up thy shrines out of thy midst, And I have destroyed thine enemies.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I will pull up the Asherah poles from among you and demolish your cities.

New American Standard Bible
"I will root out your Asherim from among you And destroy your cities.

King James Bible
And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
I will uproot from among you your Asherah poles when I demolish your cities.

New Living Translation
I will abolish your idol shrines with their Asherah poles and destroy your pagan cities.

English Standard Version
and I will root out your Asherah images from among you and destroy your cities.

New American Standard Bible
"I will root out your Asherim from among you And destroy your cities.

King James Bible
And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I will pull up the Asherah poles from among you and demolish your cities.

International Standard Version
I will uproot your cultic gods from you, and I will tear down your cities.

NET Bible
I will uproot your images of Asherah from your midst, and destroy your idols.

American Standard Version
and I will pluck up thine Asherim out of the midst of thee; and I will destroy thy cities.

English Revised Version
and I will pluck up thine Asherim out of the midst of thee: and I will destroy thy cities.

Young's Literal Translation
And I have plucked up thy shrines out of thy midst, And I have destroyed thine enemies.
















Cross References
Exodus 34:13
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

2 Kings 17:10
And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:

Isaiah 17:8
And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.

Isaiah 27:9
By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

Lamentations 2:2
The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.

Nahum 1:14
And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.

Micah 1:1
The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

Micah 5:13
Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.

Micah 5:12
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:

Micah 5:11
And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds:

Micah 5:15
And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.
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