What happened to the Unicorns in the Bible?

Question

Job 39:9.

May God bless.

Answer 1

Only God knows!

Answer 2

Unicorn means One Horn It Was probably a Rhinoceros

The unicorn is mentioned 9 times in the Bible (Numbers 23:22; 24:8; Deuteronomy 33:17; Job 39:9, 10; Psalm 22:21; 29:6; 92:10; Isaiah 34:7). Most modern versions of the Bible identify the unicorn as a wild ox. However, the biblical descriptions do not fit a wild ox. The characteristics of the unicorn are as follows:

The strength of the unicorn is a major theme of the Bible record about unicorns (Numbers 23:22; 24:8; Job 39:11)
The unicorn is wild and cannot be tamed (Job 39:9-12)
The unicorn is a dangerous animal (Psalm 22:21)
The name unicorn means one-horned, although this could possibly refer to one prominent horn.
The Bible is clearly not speaking of a wild ox. However, there is more than one possibility as to its identity.

First, there is the possibility that the mythical tales of a horse with a prominent forward horn are not completely mythical. Perhaps the unicorn is yet to be discovered. This is not to say that the Bible is teaching a myth. It is not. And, as the biblical description demonstrates, the unicorn in the Bible is not the unicorn of mythology in any way.
Second, this could be a rare species of rhinoceros that has only one horn. There is actually such a species known to zoologists today. Perhaps it was much more common at one time. Julius Caesar (according to Unger's Bible Dictionary) described a unicorn that was immense in size, of great strength and speed, ferocious, and untamable. This perfectly matches the biblical description of the unicorn.
Third, the name, unicorn, could refer to the prominent horn of the more common rhinoceros. Deuteronomy 33:17 compares the horns of Joseph to the horns of unicorns. With them (the horns) he pushes the people together. They (the horns) are compared to the ten thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh. Ephraim and Manasseh are the two tribes that come from the two sons of Joseph. The younger son (Ephraim) was given the greater blessing by Jacob (Genesis 48:17-20). This may be portrayed in Deuteronomy 33:17 by ascribing ten thousands to Ephraim but only thousands to Manasseh. How better to picture these two disproportionate tribes than with an animal that had one prominent horn (the unicorn) but also had a second much lesser horn. As further evidence, Psalm 92:10 refers to the horn of the unicorn as being exalted. This sounds like a forward pointing horn that naturally points upward—or is exalted--as the prominent horn of the rhinoceros. These passages are not absolute proof, but they strongly point to the rhinoceros as the animal that matches the unicorn in the Bible. At least until another unicorn is discovered, the rhinoceros is the most probable identity of the unicorn. The Bible description matches this animal very well.

Answer 3

There are several answers to this question:

#1 The verse quoted in Job 39:9 mentions "unicorn" in the King James Version, but in other translations the word is translated "ox." The Greek word means "with one horn." The Latin word is "rinoceros." The verse is not speaking of the horse with one horn, but a rhinoceros that we know today.

#2 The Bible is not always chronological in its order of books. The Book of Job chronologically takes place in the book of Genesis between chapters 4 and 6. It is before the flood. Unicorns could have been wiped out by the flood.

Either one of these might answer your question.

Answer 4

Job 39:9 refers to a wild ox. Unicorns are not mentioned in the Bible.

Answer 5

Same as the Leviathan, and the Behemoth. Species have been going extinct since the beginning of life. The "unicorns" are among them. It appears to have been a species of wild oxen. The King James versions used the word "unicorn", but that is not the original word. The exact species meant is unknown.

Many Bible scholars place the book of Job into the period after Adam and Eve and before the Flood of Noah. This is because all of the countries and tribes named in the book are unknown. Also the people's name do not seem to be Hebrew (or Babylonian) derived names. They appears to come from an unknown language and culture - possible pre-flood. So the extenction of the "unicorn" and others may be Flood related.

Answer 6

Did you understand Job 39:9? It has no connection with your question. what do you want to imply.
The word unicorn which is called a horned animal is not supposed to translated laterally.What it means is that a person who do not believe God will not allow God to be his superior, to be his God and he consider himself to be more powerful than God and at any time he will never allow himself to join a religious group who teaches and preaches the word of God.
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Answer 7

An animal called the re'em is mentioned in several places in the Bible, often as a metaphor representing strength
The translators of the King James Version of the Bible (1611) employed unicorn to translate re'em, providing a recognizable animal that was proverbial for its untamable nature. (From Wikipedia)
The Bible uses the Hebrew word re’em for the Arabian Oryx, although this word may also refer to the Aurochs. The legend of the Unicorn probably originated in part from the Arabian Oryx, which when seen in profile frequently appears to have only a single horn. In the King James Version of the Bible the word “re’em” is translated as “unicorn”.
Several other translations render the word “re’em” as wild ox.

Answer 8

Unicorn was a word that was translated into old english from the hebrew text, meaning "wild Ox" back in 1611 England, a wild Ox was called a Unicorn.

Other versions of the Bible read like this:

NKJV - Job 39:9 - "Will the wild ox be willing to serve you?
Will he bed by your manger?

NLT - Job 39:9 - "Will the wild ox consent to being tamed? Will it stay in your stall?
New Living Translation © 1996 Tyndale Charitable Trust


NIV - Job 39:9 - “Will the wild ox consent to serve you?

Will he stay by your manger at night?


ESV - Job 39:9 - “Is the wild ox willing to serve you?
Will he spend the night at your manger?


NASB - Job 39:9 - "Will the wild ox consent to serve you, Or will he spend the night at your manger?

RSV - Job 39:9 - "Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your crib?

ASV - Job 39:9 - Will the wild-ox be content to serve thee? Or will he abide by thy crib?

Vulgate - Job 39:9 - numquid volet rinoceros servire tibi aut morabitur ad praesepe tuum

Answer 9

It may have gone extinct.

Barnum & Bailey circus have a goat, that when it was feed a secret mixture from they got from Africa, grew a horn on its forehead.

Or it may be like many of the dinosaurs. Many of them did not go extinct. But because things do not live as long as before the flood, reptiles do not get as large as they use to (reptiles keep growing as long as they are alive), imaging how large a Komono Dragon would get if it lived 300 years.

Answer 10

It also translates as wild ox in some versions, possibly at the time that the king james was written, unicorn meant a wild ox with a single horn?

Answer 11

Unicorns as we know them (white horse with a single horn) are part of fantasy mythology. Scholars believe the unicorn mentioned in KJV translation of the bible to be a one-horned wild ox bull, which is now extinct.