The Definition of the word Ox goad

Ox goad

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 [456]GOAD.)"