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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

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 638 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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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 cut, and finds the
original
  meaning to be a glade cut through a
wood
 ), a small 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 park, &c. Groves have been connected with religious
worship
  from the earliest times, and in many parts of India every
village
  has its sacred group of trees. For the connexion of religion with sacred groves see TREE-
WORSHIP
 .
The word " grove " was used by the authors of the Authorized Version of the Bible to translate two Hebrew words: (I) 'eshel, as in Gen. xxi. 33, and 1 Sam. xxii. 6; this is rightly given in the Revised Version as " tamarisk "; (2) asherah in many places throughout the Old Testament. Here the translators followed the Septuagint aAoos and the
Vulgate
  items. The 'dsherdh was a wooden post erected at the Canaanitish places of worship, and also by the altars of Yahweh. It may have represented a tree.


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