i dont get it... behemoth is supposed to be a dinosaur, why is unicorn a mundane beast?

Question

unless of course dinosaurs were mundane during their time...

archaeopteryx soup anyone?

i know that behemoth is not a dinosaur... just want to clear stuff up with christians who want to tell the story that behemoth is a dinosaur.

unicorn is an ox beast

Answer 1

They're both fables. When the Bible was written, they didn't know about dinosaurs. That's just rationalization by religious people who don't want to admit their book is superstition.

Answer 2

A "unicorn" is a single-horned Rhino. Two-horned rhinos still bear the scientific name of "bicorn." The Behemoth was probably a crocodile.

There were no 'giants.' The Hebrew says nothing about giants - but the word Nephilim (a tribal name) was translated 'giant' in the Septugint in order to draw a parallel between Genesis and Greek Mythology. In the Septuagint and the Dead Sea Scrolls Goliath the Giant was just over 6 foot.

Answer 3

Behemoth was a large land creature and leviathan was a large ocean creature. We do not know that they were dinosaurs. We do not know what unicorn refers to. I do not think that paleontologist have ever uncovered the remains of a unicorn.

Answer 4

Because a unicorn is always lawful good, behemoths have to be chaotic evil or at least neutral.

Answer 5

it is all guess'
not bashing the bible
bashing bad translations

that is their best guess as to what they were writing about.

it is easier to look at it this way..
behemoth was a creature of some sort.
giants were tall and or big people of some sort.

that way, you can get back to the important stuff.

Answer 6

be·he·moth /bɪˈhiməθ, ˈbiə-/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[bi-hee-muhth, bee-uh-] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. an animal, perhaps the hippopotamus, mentioned in Job 40:15–24.
2. any creature or thing of monstrous size or power: The army's new tank is a behemoth. The cartel is a behemoth small business owners fear.
[Origin: 1350–1400; < Heb bəhémōth, an aug. pl. of bəhémāh beast; r. ME bemoth]
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be·he·moth (bĭ-hē'məth, bē'ə-məth) Pronunciation Key
n.

1. Something enormous in size or power.
2. often Behemoth A huge animal, possibly the hippopotamus, described in the Bible.



[Middle English behemoth, bemoth, from Hebrew bəhēmôt, pl. of bəhēmâ, beast; see bhm in Semitic roots.]

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behemoth
1382, huge biblical beast (Job xl.15), from L. behemoth, from Heb. b'hemoth, usually taken as plural of intensity of b'hemah "beast." But the Heb. word is most likely a folk etymology of Egyptian pehemau, lit. "water-ox," the name for the hippopotamus.

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behemoth

noun
1. someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful [syn: giant]
2. a person of exceptional importance and reputation [syn: colossus]

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Behemoth

(Job 40:15-24). Some have supposed this to be an Egyptian word meaning a "water-ox." The Revised Version has here in the margin "hippopotamus," which is probably the correct rendering of the word. The word occurs frequently in Scripture, but, except here, always as a common name, and translated "beast" or "cattle."
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Behemoth

Behemoth, beasts
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BEHEMOTH

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mun·dane /mʌnˈdeɪn, ˈmʌndeɪn/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[muhn-deyn, muhn-deyn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. of or pertaining to this world or earth as contrasted with heaven; worldly; earthly: mundane affairs.
2. common; ordinary; banal; unimaginative.
3. of or pertaining to the world, universe, or earth.
[Origin: 1425–75; < L mundānus, equiv. to mund(us) world + -ānus -ane; r. late ME mondeyne < MF mondain < L, as above]

—Related forms
mun·dane·ly, adverb
mun·dane·ness, noun

—Synonyms 1. secular, temporal. See earthly.
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mun·dane (mŭn-dān', mŭn'dān') Pronunciation Key
adj.

1. Of, relating to, or typical of this world; secular.
2. Relating to, characteristic of, or concerned with commonplaces; ordinary.



[Middle English mondeine, from Old French mondain, from Latin mundānus, from mundus, world.]

mun·dane'ly adv., mun·dane'ness, mun·dan'i·ty (-dān'ĭ-tē) n.
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mundane
1475, from M.Fr. mondain (12c.), from L. mundanus "belonging to the world" (as distinct from the Church), from mundus "universe, world," lit. "clean, elegant"; used as a transl. of Gk. khosmos (see cosmos) in its Pythagorean sense of "the physical universe" (the original sense of the Gk. word was "orderly arrangement"). L. mundus also was used of a woman's "ornaments, dress," and is related to the adj. mundus "clean, elegant" (used of women's dress, etc.).

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mundane

adjective
1. found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant [syn: everyday]
2. concerned with the world or worldly matters; "mundane affairs"; "he developed an immense terrestrial practicality"
3. belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly; "not a fairy palace; yet a mundane wonder of unimagined kind"; "so terrene a being as himself"

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mundane jargon
Someone outside some group that is implicit from the context, such as the computer industry or science fiction fandom. The implication is that those in the group are special and those outside are just ordinary.
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mundane

n. [from SF fandom] 1. A person who is not in science fiction fandom. 2. A person who is not in the computer industry. In this sense, most often an adjectival modifier as in "in my mundane life...." See also Real World.

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Answer 7

uh, the behemouth was a whooly mammoth, similar to an elephant, which existed alongside humans for many, many years.

a unicorn is a female fantasy....a large, white horse with a perminant hardon. Most of us white guys are not nearly so impressive. well, except me...

Answer 8

behemoth is not a dinosaur.

Answer 9

The unicorns in the Bible were really narwhals.

Answer 10

Because it's just a horny horsie.