Goads
god (dorebhan, malmadh; kentron): The goad used by the Syrian
farmer is usually a straight branch of oak or other strong
wood from which the bark has been stripped, and which has at
one end a pointed spike and at the other a flat chisel-shaped
iron. The pointed end is to prod the oxen while plowing. The
flattened iron at the other end is to sc...
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An instrument of torture
1Sa 13:21
-600 Men killed with, by Shamgar, a judge (hero) of Israel
Jud 3:31
-FIGURATIVE
Of mental incentive
Ec 12:11...
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Jud 3:31; 1Sa 13:21 The Hebrew word in the latter passage
probably means the point of the plough-share. The former word
does probably refer to the goad, the long handle of which
might be used as a formidable weapon. The instrument, as still
used in countries of southern Europe and western Asia,
consists of a rod about eight feet long, brought ...
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(Heb. malmad, only in Judg. 3: 31), an instrument used by
ploughmen for guiding their oxen. Shamgar slew six
hundred
Philistines with an ox-goad. "The goad is a
formidable
weapon.
It is sometimes ten feet long, and has a sharp
point.
We could
now see that the feat of Shamgar was not so very
wonderful as
some have been accustomed to think...
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A pointed instrument, eight feet long, often headed with iron
(1 Samuel 13:21; Ecclesiastes 12:11). To "kick against the
pricks" expresses unavailing resistance, as if cattle were to
kick against the goads of their driver Who has them wholly in
his power, as God has the recalcitrant sinner (Acts 9:5)....
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The words of the wise [are] as goads, and as nails fastened
[by] the masters of assemblies, [which] are given from one
shepherd....
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Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters,
and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads....
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And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the
Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also
delivered Israel....
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The goad. A goad is carried by the native ploughman today, and was also used in Bible times. It is a wooden rod varying in length from five to seven feet, with a sharp point at one end. With this the farmer can hurry up his slow-moving animals.5
It was such an ox-goad that was used by Shamgar in slaying six hundred Philistines (Judges 3:31). The c...
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