Isaiah 34:7 KJV
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.
Words Then and Now
- unicorns a wild ox Webster’s 1828 · Unicorn
What these words mean in the King James Bible, and where you’ll still hear them today.
Translation Notes
- UnicornIn the KJV’s English a unicorn was a real beast of great strength, the one-horned monoceros or rhinoceros, not a creature of fable.
Matthew Henry
- God's vengeance against the enemies of his churchHere is a prophecy of the wars of the Lord, all which are both righteous and successful. All nations are concerned. And as they have all had the benefit of...
Cross References
- Numbers 23:22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
- Psalms 68:30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.
- Jeremiah 50:27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
- 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 39:9–10 Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? …
- Psalms 92:10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
- Jeremiah 46:21 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
- Jeremiah 50:11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;
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Topics
- Edomites Prophecies concerning
- Isaiah Declares the goodness and longsuffering of God toward them
- Unicorn (wild ox, R. V.) Of the judgments of God
- War Evils of
Timeline
- Timeline of the Bible808–698 BC · Isaiah, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah
Hebrew and Strong’s
- And the unicorns רְאֵמִים rĕʾēmîm רְאֵם Noun · masculine plural
- shall come down וְיָרְדוּ wĕyārĕdû יָרַד Verb · qal sequential perfect, third person common plural · with and
- with them, and the bullocks עִמָּם ʿimmām Preposition · with suffix: third person masculine plural וּפָרִים ûpārîm פַּר Noun · masculine plural · with and
- with the bulls עִם ʿim Preposition אַבִּירִים ʾabbîrîm אַבִּיר Adjective · masculine plural
- and their land אַרְצָם ʾarṣām אֶרֶץ Noun · masculine or feminine singular construct · with suffix: third person masculine plural
- shall be soaked וְרִוְּתָה wĕriwwĕtâ רָוָה Verb · piel sequential perfect, third person feminine singular · with and
- with blood מִדָּם middām דָּם Noun · masculine singular · with preposition
- and their dust וַעֲפָרָם waʿăpārām עָפָר Noun · masculine singular construct · with and, suffix: third person masculine plural
- made fat יְדֻשָּׁן yĕduššān דָּשֵׁן Verb · pual imperfect, third person masculine singular
- with fatness מֵחֵלֶב mēḥēleb חֶלֶב Noun · masculine singular · with preposition
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