μονόκερως
unicorn, wild ox
Where this word appears
Every passage where μονόκερως appears in the Greek Septuagint — 8 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Numbers 23:22 μονόκερως It was God who brought him out of Egypt; he has as it were the glory of a unicorn.
- Numbers 24:8 μονόκερως God led him out of Egypt; he has as it were the glory of a unicorn: he shall consume the nations of his enemies, and he shall drain their marrow, and with his darts he shall shoot through the enemy.
- Deuteronomy 33:17 μονόκερως His beauty is as the firstling of his bull, his horns are the horns of a unicorn; with them he shall thrust the nations at once, even from the end of the earth: these are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and these are the thousands of Manasse.
- Job 39:9 μονόκερως And will the unicorn be willing to serve you, or to lie down at your manger?
- Psalms 21:22 μονόκερως I will declare your name to my brethren: in the midst of the church will I sing praise to you.
- Psalms 28:6 μονόκερως And he will beat them small, even Libanus itself, like a calf; and the beloved one is as a young unicorn.
- Psalms 77:69 μονόκερως And he built his sanctuary as the place of unicorns; he founded it for ever on the earth.
- Psalms 91:11 μονόκερως And my eye has seen my enemies, and my ear shall hear the wicked that rise up against me.
About this word
About this word
μονόκερως (monókerōs), “unicorn, wild ox,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 8 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →