A re'em, also reëm (), is an animal mentioned nine times in the Hebrew Bible.Job , Deuteronomy , Numbers and ; Psalms , and ; and Isaiah . It has been translated as "unicorn" in the Latin Vulgate, King James Version, and in some Christian Bible translations as "oryx" (which was accepted as the referent in Modern Hebrew), "wild ox", "wild bull", "buffalo" or "rhinoceros". Natan Slifkin has argued that the re'em was an aurochs, as has Isaac Asimov before him. Paleontologist Darren Naish also contends that the Biblical re'em was an aurochs, based on depictions of the animal on the Babylonian Ishtar Gate.
Translation The King James Version of the Book of Job followed the Septuagint and Jerome's Vulgate in the translation of re'em into unicorn:
Some Bible translations into English, including the American Standard Version and New American Standard Bible, interpret re'em as "wild ox" or "wild bull".
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