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Burning bush   /bˈərnɪŋ bʊʃ/   Listen
Burning bush

noun
1.
(Old Testament) the bush that burned without being consumed and from which God spoke to Moses.
2.
Deciduous shrub having purple capsules enclosing scarlet seeds.  Synonyms: Euonymus atropurpureus, wahoo.
3.
Eurasian perennial herb with white flowers that emit flammable vapor in hot weather.  Synonyms: Dictamnus alba, dittany, fraxinella, gas plant.
4.
Densely branched Eurasian plant; foliage turns purple-red in autumn.  Synonyms: Bassia scoparia, belvedere, fire-bush, fire bush, Kochia scoparia, summer cypress.






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"Burning bush" Quotes from Famous Books



... there; not only heaps of bones and entire corpses of saints, with a portion of the body of the patriarch Isaac, but also pieces of the manna, as it had fallen from heaven in the desert, little bits of the burning bush of Moses, jars from the wedding at Cana, and some of the wine into which Jesus there had changed the water, thorns from the Saviour's crown, one of the stones with which Stephen was stoned, and a multitude of other, in all nearly 9,000, relics. Whoever should attend with devotion ...
— Life of Luther • Julius Koestlin

... manifestations. Abraham realized time and again that God was his present companion and friend. When Jacob saw the ladder reaching to heaven, and angels ascending and descending on it, he said, "Surely, the Lord is in this place." And when Moses drew near to see the burning bush, a voice from its flame demanded the removal of the sandals from his feet, for the ground on which he stood ...
— Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel - and Selections from his Writings • Frank G. Allen

... "What, my burning bush? O grandpa! I wouldn't cut that for anything in the world! It's the only pretty thing about the house; and, besides," said Fleda, looking up with a softened mien, "you said that it was planted by my mother. O grandpa! I wouldn't ...
— Queechy, Volume I • Elizabeth Wetherell

... the New Testament? The Immaculate Conception, the Resurrection, the Ascension—what's your child-mind that knows the old stories for inventions going to say to those? Are they easier to believe? The Creation or the Conception? The Flood or the Resurrection? God speaking out of a burning bush or the Ascension to Heaven? The pillar of cloud and the pillar of fire or the Three in One of the Trinity? Oh, I wonder if Modern Thought has any thought to spare for that side of the business—or for its results in ...
— This Freedom • A. S. M. Hutchinson

... representing the form of every part, and the proportion of each to all the rest." There must have been clear optical vision in the case,—"vision without dark speeches." Such, too, was the character of other of the Mosaic visions, besides that of the "pattern" seen in the Mount. The burning bush, for instance, was a vision addressed to the eye; and seemed to come so palpably under the ordinary optical laws, that the prophet drew near to examine the extraordinary phenomena ...
— The Testimony of the Rocks - or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed • Hugh Miller



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