Topic
Unicorn (Wild Ox, R. V.)
8 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Numbers 24:8Nave Great strength of
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 33:17Nave Horned
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 39:9–12Nave Intractable
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee? Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?…
- Job 39:10Nave Great strength of
Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
- Job 39:11Nave Great strength of
Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
- Psalms 22:21Nave Horned
Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
- Psalms 92:10Nave Horned
But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
- Isaiah 34:7Nave FIGURATIVE — Of the judgments of God
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.
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Texts: Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.