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• UCAL the name of a person to whom Agur’s words are addressed
  (Proverbs 30:1).


• ULAI the Eulaus of the Greeks; a river of Susiana. It was probably the
  eastern branch of the Choasper (Kerkhan), which divided into two
  branches some 20 miles above the city of Susa. Hence Daniel (8:2,16)
  speaks of standing “between the banks of Ulai”, i.e., between the two
  streams of the divided river.


• UMMAH vicinity, a town of Asher (Joshua 19:30).


• UNCTION (1 John 2:20,27; R.V., “anointing”). Kings, prophets, and
  priests were anointed, in token of receiving divine grace. All believers are,
  in a secondary sense, what Christ was in a primary sense, “the Lord’s
  anointed.”


• UNICORN described as an animal of great ferocity and strength
  (Numbers 23:22, R.V., “wild ox,” marg., “ox-antelope;” 24:8; Isaiah 34:7,
  R.V., “wild oxen”), and untamable (Job 39:9). It was in reality a
  two-horned animal; but the exact reference of the word so rendered (reem)
  is doubtful. Some have supposed it to be the buffalo; others, the white
  antelope, called by the Arabs rim. Most probably, however, the word
  denotes the Bos primigenius (“primitive ox”), which is now extinct all over
  the world. This was the auerochs of the Germans, and the urus described
  by Caesar (Galatians Bel., vi.28) as inhabiting the Hercynian forest. The
  word thus rendered has been found in an Assyrian inscription written over
  the wild ox or bison, which some also suppose to be the animal intended
  (comp. Deuteronomy 33:17; Psalm 22:21; 29:6; 92:10).


• UNNI afficted. (1.) A Levite whom David appointed to take part in
  bringing the ark up to Jerusalem from the house of Obed-edom by playing
  the psaltery on that occasion (1 Chronicles 15:18, 20).

(2.) A Levite who returned with Zerubbabel from the Captivity (Nehemiah
12:9).