See also:

• GROVE (O.E. graf, cf. O.E. gr(efa, brushwood, later" greave "; the word does not appear in any other Teutonic language, and the New English Dictionary finds no Indo-European root to which it can be referred; Skeat considers it connected with " grave," to
• GROVE, SIR GEORGE (182o-1900)
• GROVE, SIR WILLIAM ROBERT (1811-1896)

GROVE (O.E. See also:

• GRAF, ARTURO (1848– )
• GRAF, KARL HEINRICH (1815–1869)

graf, cf. O.E. gr(efa, brushwood, later" greave "; the word does not appear in any other See also:

• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, and the New See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• DICTIONARY

Dictionary finds no Indo-See also:

• EUROPEAN

European See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root to which it can be referred; See also:

• SKEAT, WALTER WILLIAM (1835– )

Skeat considers it connected with " See also:

• GRAVE

grave," to  cut, and finds the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original meaning to be a glade cut through a See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

wood), a small See also:

• GROUP

group or cluster of trees, growing naturally and forming something smaller than a wood, or planted in particular shapes or for particular purposes, in a See also:

• PARK (Fr. part; Ital. parco; Sp. Marque; O.Eng. pearroc; connected with Ger. pferch, fold, and pfarrei, district, translating med. Lat. parochia, parish)
• PARK, EDWARDS AMASA (1808–1900)
• PARK, MUNGO (1771-1806?)

park, &c . Groves have been connected with religious See also:

• WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

worship from the earliest times, and in many parts of See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India every See also:

• VILLAGE

village has its sacred group of trees . For the connexion of See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion with sacred groves see See also:

• TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
• TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )

TREE-WORSHIP . The word " See also:

• GROVE (O.E. graf, cf. O.E. gr(efa, brushwood, later" greave "; the word does not appear in any other Teutonic language, and the New English Dictionary finds no Indo-European root to which it can be referred; Skeat considers it connected with " grave," to
• GROVE, SIR GEORGE (182o-1900)
• GROVE, SIR WILLIAM ROBERT (1811-1896)

grove " was used by the authors of the Authorized Version of the See also:

• BIBLE
• BIBLE, ENGLISH

Bible to translate two See also:

• HEBREW

Hebrew words: (I) 'eshel, as in Gen. xxi . 33, and 1 Sam. xxii . 6; this is rightly given in the Revised Version as " See also:

• TAMARISK

tamarisk "; (2) asherah in many places throughout the Old Testament . Here the translators followed the See also:

• SEPTUAGINT, THE (Gr. of 0', Lat. LXX.)

Septuagint aAoos and the See also:

• VULGATE (from Lat. vulgus, the common people)

Vulgate items . The 'dsherdh was a wooden See also:

• POST

post erected at the Canaanitish places of worship, and also by the altars of Yahweh . It may have represented a tree .