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So it appears the phrase "lofty horns of the wild-ox" in the Torah was translated into "unicorn" when the King James Version of the Christian Bible was written.
As this poster points out, the word "unicorn" is used several times in the KJV. Does the Torah always refer to "lofty horns of the wild-ox" in these places or are there other phrases used in the Torah?
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Originally Posted by Submariner
Unicorns are mentioned a bunch of times:
Numbers 23:22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
Numbers 24:8 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.
Deuteronomy 33:17 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.
Job 39:9 Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
Job 39:10 Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
Psalm 22:21 Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
Psalm 29:6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
Psalm 92:10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
Isaiah 34:7 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.
You've been given a link to an on-line Tanakh and you have a list of the verses in question.
Look it up.
I had never realized there was such a good site to read the Tanakh. I easily found all of the passages that correspond to parts of the King James Version where "unicorn" is mentioned.
The Tanakh used the phrases "horns of the wild-ox" or just "wild-ox".
Do you have any idea what kind of animal the Tanakh is referring to? Is it just a normal ox or some kind of special breed? If it is a special breed, are there still animals like that running around?
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