Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Word Study - Unicorn...רְאֵם (reʾēm) ...continued...

The word for "Wild Ox, Rhinoceros, Unicorn", occurs in scripture as noted below and is translated in the ESV as wild ox, but sometimes in the Vulgate as unicorn ...

Nu 23:22; (Vulgate Rhinoceros)
"God brings them out of Egypt and is for them like the horns of the wild ox."(ESV)


Num 24:8;  (Vulgate Rhinoceros)
"God brings him out of Egypt and is for him like the horns of the wild ox; he shall eat up the nations, his adversaries, and shall break their bones in pieces and pierce them through with his arrows."(ESV)

Dt 33:17 (Vulgate Rhinoceros)
A firstborn bull—he has majesty,and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he shall gore the peoples, all of them, to the ends of the earth; they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.”(ESV)

Job 39:9, 10 (Vulgate Rhinoceros)
“9 Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your manger? 10 Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes,or will he harrow the valleys after you?"(ESV)

Ps 22:21 (Vulgate 21:22)  (Vulgate Unicornium)
"21     Save me from the mouth of the lion! You have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen!"(ESV

Ps. 29:6 (Vulgate 28:6) (Vulgate Unicornium)
"6     He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox."(ESV)

Ps. 78:69 (Vulgate 77:69) (Vulgate Unicornium)
"69     He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded forever." (ESV)
 
Ps. 92:10 (Vulgate 91:10) (Vulgate Unicornis)
"10     But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox; you have poured over me fresh oil."(ESV)

Isa 34:7 (Vulgate 34:7) (Vulgate Unicornes)
"7     Wild oxen shall fall with them, and young steers with the mighty bulls. Their land shall drink its fill of blood, and their soil shall be gorged with fat."(ESV)


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