GROVE does not appear in any other Teutonic language, and the New English Dictionary can refer it to no Indo-European root; Skeat connects it with "grave," to cut, and makes the original meaning a glade cut through a wood, a small group of trees smaller than a wood, growing naturally or planted in particular shapes in a park, etc. Groves have been connected with religious worship from the earliest times. (See TREE-CULTS.) "Grove" was used by the authors of the Authorized Version to translate two Hebrew words : 'eshel, Gen.xxi.33, I.Sam.xxii. 6, rightly given in the Revised Version as "Tamarisk"; (2) asherah in many places in the Old Testament. The asherah, a wooden post erected at the Canaanitish places of worship, and by the altars of Yahweh, may have represented a tree.