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/bˈərnɪŋ bʊʃ/ Listen

Burning bush

noun

(Old Testament) the bush that burned without being consumed and from which God spoke to Moses.

Deciduous shrub having purple capsules enclosing scarlet seeds. Synonyms: Euonymus atropurpureus, wahoo.

Eurasian perennial herb with white flowers that emit flammable vapor in hot weather. Synonyms: Dictamnus alba, dittany, fraxinella, gas plant.

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

... many pieces; and each piece, with rainbow colors skirting it, strove to advance itself toward the east, worm-like, on its own annular muscles. It has spread into their choicest wood-lots. Now it shoots up like a single solitary watch-fire or burning bush, or where it ran up a pine tree like powder, and still it continues to gleam here and there like a fat stump in the burning, and is reflected in the water. And now I see the gods by great exertions have got it under, and the stars have come out without ...

— The Last Harvest • John Burroughs

... was nearer him. He could see the little figure in a blue jersey marching along the paths with a wheelbarrow, very important because he was helping his father. He had called the big clump of azaleas "the burning bush." ... He had always ...

— Penny Plain • Anna Buchan (writing as O. Douglas)

... Sinaitic wilderness, through which his providentially trained military instincts were to safely conduct a vast multitude,—Moses, still strong and laborious, is fitted for his exalted mission as a deliverer. And now he is directly called by the voice of God himself, amid the wonders of the burning bush,—Him whom, thus far, he had, like Abraham, adored as the Elohim, the God Almighty, but whom henceforth he recognizes as Jehovah (Jahveh) in His special relations to the Jewish nation, rather than as the general Deity who unites the attributes ascribed to Him as ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume II • John Lord

Words linked to "Burning bush" : gas plant, Old Testament, genus Bassia, Euonymus, Bassia, herbaceous plant, genus Euonymus, bush, shrub, genus Kochia, herb, Kochia