It is more than a coincidence that this legendary animal, symbol of God's special blessing, found its way into the national symbol of the United Kingdom. Biblical commentaries vary widely regarding what they think is the animal referenced as unicorns is actually referencing. Modern translations also vary in the way they translate the Hebrew word rame used for unicorns.
One medieval legend states that the horn of unicorns, if they touch the pool the animal is drinking from, renders the waters pure and sweet. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, as late as the court ceremonial of France used instruments supposidly made from such horns for testing whether royal food contained poison Volume 27, page Ask a Question!
Behemoth - Cockatrice - Dragon. Leviathan - Phoenix - Satyr - Unicorn. Unicorns are mentioned, by name, at least nine times in the King James Bible translation. They are only found in the Old Testament , with all references to them derived from the Hebrew word rame Strong's Concordance H Did Jerusalem have a well for dragons?
Is it wrong to eat animals? What three prophetic beasts are red? Think of the dodo bird. It does not exist today, but we do not doubt that it existed in the past. Eighteenth century reports from southern Africa described rock drawings and eyewitness accounts of fierce, single-horned, equine-like animals. Assyrian archaeology provides one other possible solution to the unicorn identity crisis.
The biblical unicorn could have been an aurochs a kind of wild ox known to the Assyrians as rimu. On a broken obelisk, for instance, Tiglath-Pileser I boasted of slaying them in the Lebanese mountains. Extinct since about , aurochs, Bos primigenius , were huge bovine creatures. We must be very careful when dealing with anglicized transliterated words from languages that do not share the English alphabet and phonetic structure. However, the linguistics of the text cannot conclusively prove how many horns the biblical unicorn had.
The importance of the unicorns in the Bible is not so much their specific identity—much as we would like to know—but their reality. The Bible is clearly describing a real animal. The unicorn mentioned in the Bible was a powerful animal possessing one or two strong horns—not the fantasy animal that has been popularized in movies and books. Whatever it was, it is now likely extinct like many other animals. Do you have answers to the big questions about the Christian faith, evolution, creation, and the biblical worldview?
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Helens, and more. After all, no scientific finding or archeological discovery to date has substantiated the existence of such a creature. But an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, so for many out there, the hope of the unicorn can still remain. Search Search Search. Book Club. Feature Stories. From the Church. Twitter Pinterest Email Print.
God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn. 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.
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.
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow?
Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great?
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