where are unicorns mentioned in the Bible.?

Question

they were mentioned i just dont know where, i want to know what they said about them. does anyone know. they are so real!!!

are you sure they we'rent people said they were. i've read the bible but dont remember them in there either. check out my other question about unicorns

talking about a Christian bible

Answer 1

In the Authorized (King James) Version of the Bible we read of God questioning Job (Chapter 39:9,10):

‘Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?’

The unicorn is also mentioned in Deuteronomy 33:17, Numbers 23:22 and 24:8; Psalm 22:21, 29:6 and 92:10; and Isaiah 34:7. Nowhere in these passages is there any suggestion that anything other than a real animal is being described.

But the unicorn is well known to be a product of legend, a creature whose remains have never been found and about whom fabulous tales have been told. Some have used this to attack the Bible—this proves that the writers were simply retelling widely believed myths, they say.

Unicorn (‘one horn’) stories have been told in many parts of the world, including Syria, China, India, ancient Greece and medieval Europe. Although always having one horn, its body (usually shown in European stories as a horse, albeit with cloven hooves) has also been depicted in many other ways, including resembling a sheep, a goat or even something like a hare.

A recurring theme was its association with virtue and virginity; though wild, it liked to cradle its head in devotion in a virgin’s lap, while its horn ensured a skewered end for all who tried to falsely pass themselves off as so undefiled. Marco Polo searched for the unicorn, but rejected the rhinoceros in disappointment (such a rough, ugly, muddy head could not possibly be visualized nestling in the white flowing robes of a maiden’s lap).

It is well known that the unicorn horns were greatly prized because of the belief that they were able to render poisons harmless. Sailors occasionally found the tooth of a male narwhal washed up (a narwhal is an Arctic whale, the male of which has a long, spirally twisted tusk), and assumed that it was the only remaining part of a once-living unicorn. Fabulous prices were often paid for these—Queen Elizabeth I is said to have had one which was valued at 100,000 pounds!

However, as shipping became more widespread, it became clear that these ‘unicorn horns’ were actually whales’ teeth, which had a drastic effect on market prices.

So what was the animal described in the Bible as the ‘unicorn’? The most important point to remember is that while the Bible writers were inspired and infallible, translations are another thing again. The word used in the Hebrew is ראם (re’em). This has been translated in various languages as monoceros, unicornis, unicorn, einhorn and eenhorn, all of which mean ‘one horn’. However, the word re’em is not known to have such a meaning. Many Jewish translations simply left it untranslated, because they were not sure which creature was being referred to.

Archaeology has in fact provided a powerful clue to the likely meaning of re’em. Mesopotamian reliefs have been excavated which show King Assurnasirpal hunting oxen with one horn. The associated texts show that this animal was called rimu. It is thus highly likely that this was the re’em of the Bible, a wild ox.

It appears that the reason it was shown in Assyrian (but not Egyptian) art as one-horned was as an artistic way of expressing the beauty of the fact that these horns on the rimu/re’em were very symmetrical, such that only one could be seen if the animal was viewed from one side. The first to translate the Hebrew Old Testament into Greek probably knew that the rimu/re’em was depicted as one-horned, so they translated it as monoceros (one horn).

The real re’em or wild ox was also known as the aurochs (Bos primigenius). This was the original wild bull depicted in, for example, the famous Lascaux (Cro-magnon) cave paintings. This powerful, formidable beast is now extinct, though its genetically impoverished descendants lived on as domestic cattle.


http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v14/i2/unicorn.asp

Answer 2

I would assume you're asking because you really LOVE Unicorns, and want the Bible to validate that they did/do exist.

While they are mentioned in the KJV, later versions have had those references changed to more well-known animals. But does that mean they DID exist, and nobody wants to admit it, or that they DIDN'T exist, and the Bible writers made em up. Unfortunately, without knowing what animal the writers of the Bible were thinking of in their minds when they wrote the word that was first translated as "unicorn", we just can't really know.

But I personally believe that an animal MAY have existed that was the basis for what we would now call a Unicorn. Why is it so far-fetched that there could be a horse-like creature with a single horn? After all, there are many other animals with only a single horn. Perhaps this animal was hunted to extinction, maybe because of it's horn. Eventually it became more legend then fact. Maybe someday some archeologist will find the skeleton of one intact. Now wouldn't THAT be exciting?

Dragons, which are also mentioned in the Bible, are another example of what I think we're real creatures, that for whatever reason died out and have been mythologized over time.

If Unicorns and Dragons used to exist, but were hunted to extinction by man, it should give us pause and make us work to ensure that no other animals become more legend that fact in the future.

Answer 3

i do no longer comprehend on the subject of the video yet....... “Unicorn” as utilized in at present’s vernacular, is a mythological horse with a single horn. The be conscious “unicorn” seems 9 cases interior the King James Bible (written in 1611) even though it is not describing a mythological horse. The be conscious "unicorn" till now the 1800's meant an excellent animal with one horn....We frequently talked approximately as this at present a "rhinosaurus". some rhinos have one super and one small horn. Others have in basic terms one super horn.

Answer 4

Unicorn is a legendary, one-horned animal described in ancient and medieval literature. Although there is no evidence that such an animal ever lived, many people believed in unicorns. About 2,400 years ago, a Greek physician named Ctesias wrote about a strange animal said to live in India. This animal resembled a wild *** and had a white body, blue eyes, and a single horn on its forehead. Unicorns make an appearance nine times in the SERIOUSLY FLAWED KING JAMES VERSION.

Here's the verses, compared with some popular versions: Numbers 23:22; 24:8; Deuteronomy 33:17; Job 39:9, 10; Psalms 22:21; 29:6; 92:10; Isaiah 34:7.

Some may say, so what if the KJV says unicorns, what does this prove, what is so bad about it?

... besides the fact that the appearance of this fictitious one horned horse in scripture is obvious a error showing the ignorance and inability of the 1611 translation comity. The King’s Bible use of it demeans, degrades and cheapens the one true God to a level equal to Pagan mythology.

For example Num. 23:22; 24:8 of the KJV disgracefully and blasphemously described Gods strength as equal to that of this PAGAN creature derived solely from the minds of men. The KJV has Joseph [Deut. 33:17 ] describing God with the "horns" of this imaginary man made PAGAN animal. Psalms 92:10 has God preposterously describing himself the "horn" of this PAGAN beast.

Psalms 22:21 of the KJV has King David ridiculously asking God to save him from a figment of mans imagination.

But don’t be fooled for none of this shocks or offends the KJV Onlyist, for what maters to them is not the truth, not the honor and dignity of God. The only thing that maters to them is the false integrity of there leather bound, man made, translation.

It is a well known fact that the 1611 translators on many occasions sacrificed accuracy of rendering, to curry favor from the King and to avoid his wrath. One [of many possible] such example of this is I Cor. xiii:5 the translators added the word "easily".

See pic of unicorn from a 1616 printing of the KJV:
http://www.catholicapologetics.net/apolo_55.htm

Answer 5

i think they're real too - but unfortunately they are not mentioned in the original hebrew Bible. They're in the King James Bible, but it was a mistranslation from the original language. I'm trying to remember, but i think in the KJV they're in one of the Psalms - 72 maybe.
It is curious though, that the Royal Crest of the United Kingdom has a lion on one side, and a unicorn on the other.

Answer 6

Numbers, Deuteronomy, Psalms, Job, Isaiah make mention of unicorns, in the KJV, but in other versions it has been changed to other animals.

Job 39:8-10 refers to a wild ox where KJV mentioned a unicorn.

Answer 7

THIS IS NOT AN ANSWER TO THE ABOVE QUESTION. IM USING THIS SPACE TO INFORM ABOUT SOMETHING I READ, THAT THE LAST MESSENGER(ALLAH'S BLESSINGS AND PEACE BE UPON HIM) WAS A PEDOPHILE: IF IM CORRECT HE WAS ENGAGED TO AISHA AT SOME AGE AND MARRIED HER AT NINE. THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE CULTURE AT THE TIME. AND HE DIDNT TOUCH HER I THINK THOUGH THE CULTURE MIGHT HAVE THAT NORMAL. HE HAD ONLY FOUR CHILDREN I THINK AND ALL WERE FROM KHADIJA, 15 YEARS HIS SENIOR, AND THEY DIDNT HAVE CONDOMS I THINK. AND THERE WERE WIDOWS AMONG HIS OTHER WIVES - I THINK THAT WAS A CULTURE AND REALITY WHERE MARRYING THE WOMEN MIGHT BE A WAY TO EMANCIPATE HER CONDITION, MAKE PEACE WITH A TRIBE, HELP HER.

Answer 8

I thought unicorns were out of Greek Mythology.

Answer 9

Numbers

23:22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.

24:8 God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.

Deuteronomy 33

33:17 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.

Job 39

39:9 Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
39:10 Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

Psalm 92

92:10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

Isaiah 34

34:7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

Answer 10

It is the one horn Rhino in the Hebrew Bible