How many mentions are there of unicorns in the Bible and in the plays of Shakespeare?

peasypod

According to the KJ Bible there are nine... http://www.geocities.com/brandplucked/unicorn.html [Sep 22 04 12:53 AM] peasypod writes: From the KJ Bible (online) Psalms 22: 22:21 "Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns." Sep 21 04, 8:39 PM

Stew54

The King James Version has nine references to unicorns in the Old Testatment (Tanach), but the word being translated is "ra-em" which is rendered as wild ox in most modern translations. [Sep 22 04 1:54 AM] Stew54 writes: I tried a couple of search sites for Shakespeare and they both came up with the same answer - there are two uses of the word unicorn in the Bard's works. This search facility seemed to be the most complete. http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare/test.html Sep 22 04, 1:39 AM

Arpeggionist

The Hebrew "r'em" which is translated is really a general word for rams or antelopes. King David in the Psalm was referring to a very real creature, which could be quite aggressive under stress (not that unicorns wouldn't defend themselves if they felt threatened). Sep 22 04, 2:53 AM

Stew54

Some sites speculate that this word might be a reference to the now-extinct auroch, because in the context it seems that the bible is referring to an animal more formidable than a ram or an antelope. http://www.searchgodsword.org/lex/heb/view.cgi?number=07214 Sep 22 04, 7:09 AM

TabbyTom

As well as Shakespeare’s two uses of “unicorn” noted by Stew, there are two uses of the word in the plural: “A living drollery. Now will I believe/That there are unicorns” (“The Tempest”, Act 3 Sc 3) “I can o’ersway him, for he loves to hear/That unicorns may be betrayed with trees.” (“Julius Caesar”, Act 2 Sc 1) Source: Bartlett’s Complete Concordance to Shalespeare (checked in John Dover Wilson’s Cambridge University Press edition.) Sep 22 04, 6:27 PM

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