Ox Goad in Easton's Bible Dictionary
mentioned only in Judg. 3:31, the weapon with which Shamgar
(q.v.) slew six hundred Philistines. "The ploughman
still
carries his goad, a weapon apparently more fitted for
the hand
of the soldier than the peaceful husbandman. The one I
saw was
of the 'oak of Bashan,' and measured upwards of ten
feet in
length. At one end was an iron spear, and at the other
a piece
of the same metal flattened. One can well understand
how a
warrior might use such a weapon with effect in the
battle-field"
(Porter's Syria, etc.). (See GOAD -T0001508.)
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