plural form -ot, is found three times in the Hebrew Bible: in Judges 3:7 and 2 Chronicles 19:3 and 2 Chronicles 33:3. Archaic suffixes like -atu/a/i became Northwest Semitic -at or -a, the latter often written -ah in transcription. Terminally alternate spellings like Asherat and Asherah reflect contextual rather than existential variation.

A masculine plural form Asherim appears in Ezekiel 27:6,