'Branch' in the Bible

Then separating the three hundred men into three bands, he gave every man a horn, and a vessel in which was a flaming branch.

So all the people got branches, every man cutting down a branch, and they went with Abimelech at their head and, massing the branches against the inner room, put fire to the room over them; so all those who were in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women, were burned to death with it.