Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H7214: רְאֵם

rᵉʼêm · pronounced reh-ame' · “wild ox”

Definition

a wild bull (from its conspicuousness)

KJV translates it as: unicorn.

Word origin: or רְאֵיםlemma רְאיֵם second vowel, corrected to רְאֵים; or רֵים; or רֵם; from H7213 (רָאַם);

Extended definition

probably the great aurochs or wild bulls which are now extinct. The exact meaning is not known.

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H7214 is translated

  • a wild ox ×5
  • wild oxen ×3
  • the wild ox ×1

Bible verses with H7214 (rᵉʼêm)

Rᵉʼêm appears in 9 verses.

  • Numbers 23:22

    God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.

  • Numbers 24:8

    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 33:17

    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

    Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?

  • Job 39:10

    Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

  • Psalms 22:21

    Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

  • Psalms 29:6

    He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

  • Psalms 92:10

    But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

  • Isaiah 34:7

    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.