Are There Actually Unicorns In The Bible? | The Catholic Talk Show

The unicorn: a mythical animal known since antiquity as a beast with a single spiraled white horn projecting from its forehead. A creature commonplace in folktales, legends, and children’s stories, so why does the Holy Bible mention them a total of five times? The answer is a bit more complicated than you might think at first.

You might ask yourself why inerrant Scripture revealing Truth in the Word of God would mention a mythical fairytale creature. However, to understand why the Holy Bible would have unicorns included throughout requires a bit of context and also understanding of Biblical translations. If you’ve never noticed the unicorn mentioned throughout Bible, here are some specific mentions, using the Douay-Rheims translation:

• “Save me from the lion’s mouth; and my lowness from the horns of the unicorns.” – Psalm 21:22
• “And shall reduce them to pieces, as a calf of Libanus, and as the beloved son of unicorns.” – Psalm 28:6
• “And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns, in the land which he founded for ever.” – Psalm 77:69
• “But my horn shall be exalted like that of the unicorn: and my old age in plentiful mercy.” – Psalm 91:11
• “And the unicorns shall go down with them, and the bulls with the mighty: their land shall be soaked with blood, and their ground with the fat of fat ones.” – Isaiah 34:7

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[hummingbirdee]

Fascinating! I always wondered about unicorns. Thank you for sharing this with us. ✝️🙏♥️🕯️🕊️🇬🇧

[Veritas]

They were one horned rhinos. Super easy.

[onefodderunit]

The ancients didn't know what a rhino looked like so they invented a horse with a horn? The deliberate dumbing down is inescapable.

[cosminbryant]

elasmotherium is really the biblical unicorn 😂

[christisking]

I disagree here. Latin, Greek, and Hebrew all had a separate word for a rhino.

If anyone is interested, I can explain the entire history of all this. I believe the authors, biblical and otherwise, were talking about unicorns.

The natural history Indica was written in the first years of the 4th century BC. It is full of fabulous creatures of all kinds, but it is also full of real things. It says unicorns originated in India. They are described as a white ass-like creature with a purple face (probably a dark red considering how colors were described at the time in Greece), and a tri-colored horn (red tip, black mid, and white base).

This doesnt mean unicorns are physically real, but they were a known creature when the 70 was translated from Hebrew.

[PeriNKinG]

God does not exaggerate.. if it was a rhino he would of said rhino, not unicorn.

[waldwassermann]

The hunt of the unicorn does indeed signify jesus christ for the meaning of the word unicornus is uni- meaning one and -cor meaning heart and -us meaning us. The heart is one; the heart is us! Hence the sacred heart. There you have the hidden meaning of the unicorn.

[mariediphillipo]

I was told they were demonic at s prayer meeting

[el-jordanel-ataarikiglover]

Kia Ora'na GREETINGS and Hello from the CROWN. I am the Unircorn the Christ ATA KAVANA ARIKI GLOVER OF KEIA the BRITISH CROWN and OFFICE of CHRIST JESUS the MESSIAH which is the Westbury White Horse carved on the Hills of Britain 3, 000 years ago and it's real and I'm here.