Bush
סְנֶהStrong’s H5572seneh (se-neh)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Seneh is the Hebrew word usually translated “bush”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.”
Meaning
- A bush, thorny bushthe burning bush of Moses · perhaps a blackberry bush
How it's translated
- the bush 4
- and the bush 1
- bush 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 3
- Deuteronomy 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 3:3And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
- Exodus 3:4And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
- Deuteronomy 33:16And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.
Hebrew dictionary
סְנֶה seneh · bush
1) a bush, thorny bush 1a) the burning bush of Moses 1b) perhaps a blackberry bush
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bush” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BUSH, noun
[Latin pasco, originally, to feed on sprouts.]
- A shrub with branches; a thick shrub; also, a cluster of shrubs.
- An assemblage of branches interwoven.
- A branch of a tree fixed or hung out as a tavern sign.
- A circle of metal let into the sheaves of such blocks as have iron pins, to prevent their wearing.
All definitions and other forms of “bush”
BUSH, verb intransitive
To grow thick or bushy.
BUSH, verb transitive
To furnish a block with a bush
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.