Goad

A long wooden stick with a metal tip used to drive animals.

Drawing of a man using a goad to spur on a team of oxen
Drawing of a man using a goad to spur on a team of oxen (© Unknown - Wikimedia Commons) Goad

About Goad

Pointed rod, sometimes tipped with metal, used for driving or guiding cattle, especially oxen in plowing.

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Form, use in ancient daily life, and how translators render the term.

Key References

Judges 3:31

After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath. And he too saved Israel, striking down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad.

1 Samuel 13:21

The charge was a pim for sharpening a plowshare or mattock, a third of a shekel for sharpening a pitchfork or an axe, and a third of a shekel for repointing an oxgoad.

Ecclesiastes 12:11

The words of the wise are like goads, and the anthologies of the masters are like firmly embedded nails driven by a single Shepherd.

All Scripture References (3)

Judges (1)
Judges 3:31

After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath. And he too saved Israel, striking down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad.

1 Samuel (1)
1 Samuel 13:21

The charge was a pim for sharpening a plowshare or mattock, a third of a shekel for sharpening a pitchfork or an axe, and a third of a shekel for repointing an oxgoad.

Ecclesiastes (1)
Ecclesiastes 12:11

The words of the wise are like goads, and the anthologies of the masters are like firmly embedded nails driven by a single Shepherd.