Unicorn – Having one horn.
God used this word 9 times in Scripture, all to Israel in their Masoretic Text Old Testament.
The word ‘unicorn’ originated in English in 1300 CE from the French and Latin word monoceros, meaning ‘one horn’. The word rhinoceros means ‘nose-horned’, which is the description found in Scripture. Being that the only 2-horned rhinoceroses are only found in Sumatra, there are no occurrences of them in Scripture.
In the 1st century CE, Pliny the Elder invented a fabled a creature with a horse’s body, deer’s head, elephant’s feet, lion’s tail, and one black horn two cubits long projecting from its forehead, which he called a ‘unicorn’.
Today, through Presumed Public Knowledge, everyone believes Pliny’s fable about unicorns. But in fact, a unicorn is simply a rhinoceros.
See also Archaic, Fable, Presumed Public Knowledge, Superstition, Translation