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Exodus 3:2

There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.

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ASV

And the angel of Jehovah 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.

KJV

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.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַ֠יֵּרָאVai.ye.ra'and he appearedH7200 →
מַלְאַ֨ךְmal.'Akh[the] angel ofH4397 →
יְהֹוָ֥הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
אֵלָ֛יו'e.Lavto himH413 →
בְּלַבַּת־be.la.bat-in a flame ofH3827 →
אֵ֖שׁ'eshfireH784 →
מִתּ֣וֹךְmi.Tokhfrom [the] middle ofH8432 →
הַסְּנֶ֑הha.se.Nehthe bushH5572 →
וַיַּ֗רְאvai.Yar'and he sawH7200 →
וְהִנֵּ֤הve.hi.Nehand there!H2009 →
הַסְּנֶה֙ha.se.Nehthe bushH5572 →
בֹּעֵ֣רbo.'Er[was] burningH1197 →
בָּאֵ֔שׁba.'Eshwith <the> fireH784 →
וְהַסְּנֶ֖הve.ha.se.Nehand the bushH5572 →
אֵינֶ֥נּוּ'ei.Ne.nunot itH369 →
אֻכָּֽל׃'u.Kal[was] consumedH398 →

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Acts 7:30–35After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.Isaiah 43:2When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze.Mark 12:26But concerning the dead rising, have you not read about the burning bush in the Book of Moses, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?Deuteronomy 33:16with the choice gifts of the land and everything in it, and with the favor of Him who dwelt in the burning bush. May these rest on the head of Joseph and crown the brow of the prince of his brothers.Psalms 66:12You let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and water, but You brought us into abundance.Luke 20:37Even Moses demonstrates that the dead are raised, in the passage about the burning bush. For he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’Malachi 3:1“Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare the way before Me. Then the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to His temple—the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight—see, He is coming,” says the LORD of Hosts.Isaiah 63:9In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.Exodus 3:16Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.1 Kings 19:12After the earthquake there was a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a still, small voice.Genesis 48:16the angel who has redeemed me from all harm—may He bless these boys. And may they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth.”Deuteronomy 4:20Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today.Daniel 3:27and when the satraps, prefects, governors, and royal advisers had gathered around, they saw that the fire had no effect on the bodies of these men. Not a hair of their heads was singed, their robes were unaffected, and there was no smell of fire on them.Genesis 16:7–13Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.Exodus 3:4–10When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called out to him from within the bush, “Moses, Moses!” “Here I am,” he answered.Leviticus 9:24Fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted for joy and fell facedown.Exodus 19:18Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.Genesis 15:13–17Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

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About Exodus

The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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