Most modern versions of the Bible identify the unicorn as a wild ox. However, the biblical descriptions do not fit a wild ox. The characteristics of the unicorn are as follows:
They weigh about 4,500 pounds, can run at over 20 miles an hour; they have one large horn on the snout and their scientific name is Rhinoceros UNICORNIS.
So, are YOU now asserting the physical existance of unicorns?
From elsewhere:
In responding to your citations of biblical references to unicorns, I was NOT referring to the 'original' recorders but to the subsequent translators, who on encountering 'rêym', principally meaning 'wild bull' (Strong's Hebrew Dictionary, #7214), rendered it as 'unicorn'.
In any case aurochs (wild bulls) differed considerably in attributes from medieval depictions of unicorns.
Of the four attributes mentioned in your link, three match the auroch, strong, wild and dangerous. The fourth, having a name meaning one-horned, is true only in translation NOT in the original Hebrew.
One of the mythological beings associated with the unicorn is the Orzila
"Orzila
Raba said: “I saw an antelope-אורזילא בר יומא, which when one day old was the size of Mount Tabor, being four parasangs big. The length of its neck was three parasangs..it cast a ball of excrement and blocked up the river Jordan.” (:בבא בתרא עג)"
"The parasang also finds use in the Babylonian Talmud, in several uses, one being the calculation of the width of Jacob's Ladder as 8,000 parasangs.[9]"
Post by stepnwolf on Apr 15, 2013 14:24:56 GMT 9.5
Paul, Thank you so much for the URL to Nathan Merel's website (www.nathanmerel.com/. This kind of literature is difficult to find, particularly in English.
Having read just a few lines, I am even more convinced of an association with the Jewish people in a former life. תודה רבה