Unicorns

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Why are "unicorns" in the Latin Vulgate?

PSALMS 21 22 Save me from the lion's mouth; and my lowness from the horns of the [b]unicorns[/b].
PSALMS 28 6 And shall reduce them to pieces, as a calf of Libanus, and as the beloved son of [b]unicorns[/b].
PSALMS 77 69 And he built his sanctuary as of [b]unicorns[/b], in the land which he founded for ever.
PSALMS 91 11 But my horn shall be exalted like that of the [b]unicorn[/b]: and my old age in plentiful mercy.
ISAIAS 34 7 And the [b]unicorns[/b] 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.


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The latin word in the vulgate is unicornis. In the septuagint it is monokeros. Sometimes rhinoceros is used. The Hebrew is reem (transliterated). This does not actually refer to a one horned animal (some verses speak of the horns, plural, of the reem.
A careful study of this word reveals that it simply refers to a type of wild ox. For example the cognate word in Akkadian 'rimu', is known to be a specific type of Ox, and the evidence in the Biblical usage of reem indicates this as well.

Sorry to spoil your fun.

God bless.