miph.le.tset denotes an object made for Asherah that Asa cut down, burned, and, in one account, crushed.

The attested use denotes an object made for Asherah that is treated as objectionable and destroyed: Asa cuts it down and burns it in both accounts, while the Chronicles account also says that he crushes it.

1. An object made for Asherah and destroyed · dominant

   In 1 Kings 15:13, the feminine singular absolute forms occur in the statement that Maacah made an object for Asherah; the APB renders the verse with Asa cutting it down and burning it. In 2 Chronicles 15:16, the same morphology appears in the parallel account, where the APB renders the object as being cut down, crushed, and burned.

   1 Kings 15:132 Chronicles 15:16

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the object as “a horror” in 1 Kings 15:13 and “a horrid image” in 2 Chronicles 15:16. These renderings show the verses' presentation rather than a precise one-to-one translation.