SENEH (n)D) occurs in the well-known pas sage of Exod. 2, where the angel of the Lord appeared unto Moses in a flaming fire, out of the midst of a bush (senelz), and the bush was not con sumed. It occurs also in vers. 3 and 4, and in Deut. xxxiii. 16. The Septuagint translates seneh by the Greek word pdros, which usually signifies the Rubus or Bramble ; so in the N. T. gdros is employed when referring to the above miracle of the burning bush. The monks of the monastery of St. Catherine, on Mount Sinai, have a species of rubus planted in their garden, near their Chapel of the Burning Bush ; but this cannot be considered as any proof of its identity with the seneh, from the little attention which they have usually paid to correctness in such points. Bove says of it, C'est une espece de Rubus, qui est voisin de notre R. fruticosus.' The species of rubles are not common either in Syria or Arabia. Rubus sanctus, the holy bramble, is found in Palestine, and is men tioned by Dr. Russell as existing in the neighbour hood of Aleppo, and Hasselquist found a rubus among the ruins of Scanderetta, and another in the neighbourhood of Seide. It is also found
among the ruins of Petra (?) (Calcott). Celsius and others quote Hebrew authors as stating that Mount Sinai obtained its name from the abundance of these bushes (seneh): Dictus est mons Sinai de nomine ejus.' But no species of mbus seems to have been discovered in a wild state on this moun tain. This was observed by Pococke. He found, however, on Mount Horeb several hawthorn bushes, and says that the holy bush was more likely to have been a hawthorn than a bramble, and that this must have been the spot where the phe nomenon was obsenred, being a sequestered place and affording excellent pasture, whereas near the chapel of tbe holy bush not a single herb grows. Shaw states that the Oxyacantha arabica grows in many places on St. Catherine's mountain. Bove says, on ascending Mount Sinai : J'ai trouve entre les rochers de granit un mespilus voisin de l'oxy acantba.' Dr. Robinson mentions it is called zarur; but it is evident that we cannot have any thing like proof in favour of either plant.—J. F. R.