The Bible Has Unicorns!
And other magical facts Christians won’t tell you
As a kid in church I’d sit reading in the Bible about unicorns . They’re there—along with angels and giants, witches, ghosts and weird monsters.
But Christians don’t like details that read like J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy fiction, or Game of Thrones. As the Christian scholar Michael Heiser would put it: “We find talk of the supernatural world uncomfortable.”
Let’s look at some magically surreal biblical plot points that you definitely won’t hear about in church.
1. Yes, the Bible has unicorns.
In the old KJV translation, they wander across the pages, often mentioned throughout the Old Testament.
“But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn…” (Ps. 92:10)
The Hebrew word rĕʾēm has been much debated. It means ‘one-horned’, and when ancient Jews translated the Bible into Greek, they used ‘unicorn’.
As scholars note, those translators “were familiar with the mythology of their culture”—and they’d said that rĕʾēm meant ‘unicorn’.
