Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—G

Grove

The “grove” for which the Jewish women wove hangings, and which the Jews were commanded to cut down and burn, was the wooden Ashera, a sort of idol symbolising the generative power of Nature.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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