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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

... descending the mysterious ladder;[7] he who taught him how to cause his sheep to bring forth young differently marked;[8] he who wrestled with Jacob on his return from Mesopotamia,[9]—were angels of light, and benevolent ones; the same as he who spoke with Moses from the burning bush on Horeb,[10] and who gave him the tables of the law on Mount Sinai. That Angel who takes generally the name of GOD, and acts in his name, and with his authority;[11] who served as a guide to the Hebrews in the desert, hidden during the day in a ...
— The Phantom World - or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. • Augustin Calmet

... ideal, that the genius of those who had seemed to be serving only Mammon was devoted passionately to a principle, and that the blood of those who came in seeming greed to America was shed gloriously in the high emprise which called America to this new world crusade. Moses in the burning bush speaking with God, Saul on the road to Damascus, never came closer to the force outside ourselves which makes for righteousness,—the force that has guided humanity upward through the ages,—than America has come ...
— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White

... the Heliodorus Room are adorned with pictures, but the ceiling also is covered with designs, illustrating four Old Testament stories of divine promises to the patriarchs: The Promise of God to Abraham of a numerous posterity,[5] The Sacrifice of Isaac, Jacob's Dream, Moses and the Burning Bush. ...
— Raphael - A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The - Painter With Introduction And Interpretation • Estelle M. Hurll

... legs 180 With will to move them and decide Whether in air or lymph to glide. Who gets a hair's-breadth on by showing That Something Else set all agoing? Farther and farther back we push From Moses and his burning bush; Cry, 'Art Thou there?' Above, below, All Nature mutters yes and no! 'Tis the old answer: we're agreed Being from Being must proceed, 190 Life be Life's source. I might as well Obey the meeting-house's bell, And listen while Old Hundred pours Forth through ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell



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



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