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NIV translates that word as was meant by the word “unicorn” as “wild ox.”
Background Pony #F6AF
If you get an old 1828 Noah Webster’s Dictionary, which is the very first edition dictionary that Webster came out with about 200 years ago, and look up the word “unicorn” it says:
 
Unicorn – An animal with one horn; the monoceros. this name is often applied to the rhinoceros.
 
(This 1828 dictionary can be accessed free online. Just go to Google.com and type in “Noah Webster 1828” and it will be one of the first links that pop up.)
 
Notice how this 200-year-old definition of the word “unicorn” says absolutely nothing about a horse. It says nothing about a horse-like animal, or a mythical animal, or a fictitious creature. It says absolutely nothing about mythology whatsoever. But rather, it says that this is a name that is often applied to the rhinoceros.
 
Now, anyone who has ever seen a rhinoceros knows that a rhino has two horns — a larger one up front, and a smaller one behind. So, how could a rhinoceros be considered a unicorn?
 
Well, if you look up the word “rhinoceros” in the same dictionary it says:
 
Rhinoceros – A genus of quadrupeds of two species, one of which, the unicorn, has a single horn growing almost erect from the nose. This animal when full grown, is said to be 12 feet in length. There is another species with two horns, the bicornis. They are natives of Asia and Africa.
 
According to Noah Webster, back in the early 1800’s it was understood that there were two species of the rhinoceros. The one-horned species was called “unicorn,” and the two-horned species was called “bicornis.”
 
Today it is understood that there are five species of the rhinoceros, three of which have two horns, and two of which have one horn.
Lunalove

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/30/unicorn-lair-discovered-north-korea
 
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And according to Juche doctrine, Kim Il-sung controls the weather. North Korea also has a pegasus, Chollima:
 
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…so thanks for admitting that Kim the First is God, fundies. And, as according to the Bible, talking snakes existed, as well as Dragons, so find us Spike. For MLP:FIM” is a documentary, according to your own ‘Faith’s logic; you always claim that your ‘Word of God’ is Truth, therefore FACT, do you not…?! So start ponying up that evidence; as you lot claim the Bible is literal, so taking that logic to it’s ultimate extreme, therefore no ‘Interpretation’ allowed: 1 Thessalonians 5:21 (KJV) means exactly what it says: ‘Prove ALL things.’ Which means provide us with hard, solid, empirical, physical, independent peer-reviewed secular evidence to our satisfaction, or the Bible is all lies: and you cannot spell ‘Belief’ without the word Lie.
 
Unicorns in the Bible. Unicorns in North Korea.
 
Same fiction, different times…!
Background Pony Number 17
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition

You can blame the Jewish translators of the Septuagent (the Greek translation of the Scriptures) for translating the Hebrew re’em (some kind of fantastic beast in Jewish folklore, possibly based on the aurochs, the wild predecessor of cattle) as monocerous, which led St. Jerome to translate it into Latin as unicornus, which led King James’s scribes to translate it into English as unicorn.