What Is Horn (of oil) in the Bible?
Object
A hollow animal horn, used as a container. Samuel carried the oil to anoint David in a horn.
Where it appears in the Bible
1 Samuel 16:1, 13
What the Bible says
1 Samuel 16:1, 13
1And the Lord said to Samuel. How It long wilt thou mourn for Saul, whom I have rejected from reigning over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and come, that I may send thee to Isai the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons. 13Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward: and Samuel rose up, and went to Ramatha.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “cuerna”