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Re'em


A re'em, also reëm (Hebrew: רֶאֵם‎), is an animal mentioned nine times in the Hebrew Bible (Job , Deuteronomy , Numbers and ; Psalms , and ; and Isaiah ) and variously translated as a unicorn or a wild ox. It was first identified in modern times with the aurochs by Johann Ulrich Duerst who discovered it was based on the Akkadian cognate rimu ( in cuneiform), meaning Bos primigenius, the aurochs, progenitor of cattle. This has been generally accepted, as it is today even among religious scholars. It has been translated in some Christian Bible translations as "oryx" (which was accepted as the referent in Modern Hebrew) and as "unicorn" in the King James Version, possibly referring to a one-horned rhinoceros such as Rhinoceros unicornis.

The King James Version of the Book of Job followed the Greek Old Testament and Jerome Vulgate in its translation unicorn:


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