(one-horned). A fabulous animal pictured as having one horn on its forehead and the body of a horse. The Hebrew word re’em, which is translated “unicorn” (Num. 23:22; 24:8; Deut. 33:17; Job 39:9; Psa. 22:21; 29:6; Isa. 34:7), does not refer to the one-horned creature of fable, but evidently to a two-horned animal (Deut. 33:17), possibly the now nearly extinct wild ox, auroch or urus of naturalists.