Do unicorns and giants exists because they are mentioned in the Bible?

Question

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?

Answer 1

yes
unicorn simply means single or one horn. i also put in the definition from the wikipedia site on them
also, giants do exist, sorry i only have examples from wrestling, but i am also a wrestling fan. I have heard of some people being fifteen ft. tall, but could not find any site on them.

hope this helps you :)

Answer 2

You'll notice that there isn't a description of what the "unicorn" looks like. It doesn't say that it was like a horse with a long horn coming out of it's forehead.

The Hebrew word that was translated into old English as unicorn is:

rēym, ֵרם
rēm: A masculine noun indicating a wild ox. It refers to a large animal with horns that are powerful offensive as well as defensive weapons (Num_23:22; Num_24:8; Psa_22:21 [22]). God is its creator and provider (Job_39:9-10).

As to there being "giants" there were two recent news stories about men over 8 feet tall. I don't see why there couldn't have been men even taller at some point in the past.

Answer 3

There is fossil evidence for giant apes so there's no reason why there could not also have been giant sized humans.

Unicorn simply means an animal with one horn, the unicorn in the Bible was a one-horned wild ox that was not suitable for domestication. This is consistent with the Biblical description: "‘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?" Mythical one-horned magic horses don't plough furroughs or harrow valleys, but oxen do. Just don't try it with a wild one-horn oxen, use a domesticated Bullock instead!

Here we have a reference to Bullocks and Unicorns (one-horned wild oxen) in the same sentence: "His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns"

And again here once more we have Bullocks and Unicorns (one-horned wild oxen) in the same sentence: "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."

The Bible also mentions dragons. Dragons are what people used to call giant reptiles before the name "Dinosaur" which means "terrible lizzard" was invented in the 19th Century.

Two dragons/dinosaurs are described in detail, Leviathan, a giant lizzard-like sea creature with scales and terrible teeth. And Behemoth a dinosaur-sized land based lizzard. Elsewhere in the Bible dragons are simply described as large sepents or reptiles.

Here in the 21st Century we get completely the wrong idea when we see dragons and unicorns mentioned in the Bible.

Answer 4

Both have existed. There was a unicorn in the 1970s that was surgically altered from a goat. And there was a giant who was almost 8 feet tall who lived near here (St. Louis, MO) somewhere.

But as really separate races? Doubtful. If there had been giants, really very much larger than modern humans, we would undoubtedly have found a skeleton or two by now. And unicorns have generally been acknowledged to be mythological for some time now.

Now here's an interesting question: does a mythological creature or a fictional character have a kind of existence? Not the same as you or I, of course, but a sort of life of its own, in that it is "kept alive" in the minds of people? To me, that's the same sort of existence God has. Or Harry Potter.

P.S. I looked it up: Peter Crouch is 6'7" tall.

Answer 5

Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh. The "unicorn" thing has been beaten to death. Haven't you been paying attention? It was a MISTRANSLATION. A unicorn is literally something with one horn, not necessarily the mythical creature.

As for giants, they MIGHT have existed at one time. Not like twelve to twenty foot tall giants, but more like...Andre the Giant. If giants existed before, that would explain why occasionally people are extraordinarily tall. Imagine how a seven foot tall person would have appeared 3500 years ago.

Answer 6

I don't know what Bible you are reading, but there is no evidence at all to support your theory that unicorns are mentioned in the Bible.

The giants were mentioned in Joshua, when the Israelites were getting ready to cross over the Jordan River, into the Promised Land. And Joshua sent spies ahead, to see what the enemies were like, that they would be confronting.

The spies came back and reported to Joshua, that the men wer giants. Meaning, compared to the Israelites they were very, very tall and powerful men. The Israelite 'perceived' them as giants.

The Masai tribe in Africa are very, very tall, but lean.

Answer 7

I think unicorns come into the Koran, but not the bible. Giants actually do exist - it's even a recognised medical condition. But that has scientific verification. As for the unicorns, well, I know Mattel makes them.

Answer 8

Yes they did. Not sure exactly what the unicorn of he Bible was could have been a type of goat. The giants of Genesis were wiped out by the flood.

Answer 9

They don't exactly exist outside our imaginations, but only the unicorn is a creature inspired by the bible. Giants existed in many other mythologies, at least one is mentioned as early as in the Gigamesh epos, and the Greek as well as the Nordic mythologies talked about giants.

Answer 10

Giants yes unicorns no. Nowhere in the Bible are unicorns mentioned silly boy.