The Bible says God has "the strength of a unicorn." If unicorns don't exist, then what does that say about God

Question

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

Answer 1

God is extinct... It happened in the same age that the dinosaurs became extinct... I feel it...

Answer 2

First of all you DONT know if unicorns dont exist. They may not be anything but a fable in this world, on this planet, but how do you know God doesnt have a unicorn living somewhere else?
YOU dont.
speaking of metaphors, many prophets use analogy and symbolism to teach and as i said before, every single link i found with a unicorn in it was USED as symbolic meaning, God is strong and has strength enough to endure.
just because you see the word unicorn does not mean: God doesnt exist.
If you open your ears and listen with your eyes, lol, you will see and hear the many witnessess of God, testifying what good things he has done. I know there is a God because I saw an angel in my room and I had 3 visions of the glory of Jesus Christ.
My prayers were answered miraculously too.

Answer 3

It says that the Hebrew word et enin is often translated in the Word of God as "unicorn" - if you translate it back to the original Hebrew you will find it is "rhinoceros".
You will find just one example of this in Isaiah 34:7

You can page through the Bible all year, and I can assure you that if you see something that does not make sense, or sounds strange, or is what you feel is unfair - either you have read it wrong, read it without paying attention to the subject and the object being discussed, don't have knowledge of Hebrew, Greek or Chaldee idioms (sayings), or else it was shoddy translation.
However, all you have to do is take the word or words given, use a Concordance and take the word back to its original language, and find out the actual meaning.
You will not find anything confusing in the Bible if you read it with understanding. I can promise that with complete confidence.
I hope this is helpful. Have a great night! Jan

Answer 4

I'm not going to look the scripture up but we did have a lesson in Sunday school a few weeks ago with the passage of a unicorn and we discussed this very thing and we believe that there were unicorns or it wouldn't be in there.

Answer 5

How do you know unicorns don't exist . . . and didn't?
Anyway, that is in the English Bible, and the translators used a word that best approximated the Hebrew word for an animals they really didn't know that well, if at all. If any was meant that we know of, it was the auroch, but those aren't especially strong.
I've an idea: read the Bible with that open mind you want others to have toward you. I did this myself. I read the whole thing, cover to cover, not judging but looking. Be fair with God like you'd want Him to be fair with you.

Answer 6

so what's your point are you trying to make some angry,You could have questioned this much better and suited for a better answer! so dont be smart are you of any religion and if so respect and if not respect others and asked to seek knowledge never to bager or to be smart you are wrong and must learn how to present yor self to the masses here. never appear to be weak in character reguardless of your mentality wow! put the fire out alright we need peace here not diharmony really i am tired of all the bogus questions so i am trying not to answer with ego or anger so i am passing this on to you alright!
try humbleness when you need a question answer3d or you answer a question really it is hard but is working because i am working it
now you have already been learned that the word unicorn is inproperly translated and so you have right to get the wrong idea and I am greatful that those whom answered your question also taught me!

Answer 7

What part of 'as it were' do you not understand? The author is simply saying that God is strong enough to do the job.

Oh, and real unicorns still exist. They're called rhinos today. And they are indeed quite strong.

Answer 8

The King James version is the only one I know of that uses the Unicorn and that would be consistant with 16th centry symbols. All of the other translations use Wild Ox a much less elegant image.

Numbers 24:8 New Living Translation
God brought them out of Egypt;
for them he is as strong as a wild ox.
He devours all the nations that oppose him,
breaking their bones in pieces,
shooting them with arrows.

The use of Unicorn tells us more about the imagery the translaters were trying to use. They wanted to be as accurate as possible but portraiting God as a wild ox is not the image they like I guess.

God exists and sent his son Jesus to die for our sins that is about it.

Event the old atheistic spokesman that had even debated C.S. Lewis Antony Flew said recently that the latest biological research "has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce (life), that intelligence must have been involved.". He obviously hasn't converted to Christianity but atleast he is peaking out from under his blindfold and seeing a bit of light.


"100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased." - C.S. Lewis
"Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it." - C.S. Lewis

Answer 9

we must remember that the bible was written by many diferent individuls with many different persinalities and beliefs. The books were also written hundreds of years apart.
God with the strength of a Unicorn says that God is beutiful and stong and mystical, and if you truly belive in him he is capable of great magic.

Answer 10

the term used is a fugure of speech. If unicorns were real they would obviousley be strong. When they say that God is as strong as a unicorn they dont mean that he isnt real. I hope that is a suffishint explanation

Answer 11

it's a metaphor. And probably in an old version of the bible. The word "unicorn" is based on the Hebrew word re'em ("horn"), in early versions of the Old Testament translated as "monokeros", meaning "one horn", which became "unicorn" in English. The creature is possibly based on the rhinoceros or the narwhal, a marine creature with one horn.