Ox goad

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