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A long slender pole with a sharp point at one end, used for guiding and urging the oxen in ploughing. It can also be used as a formidable weapon. Shamgar slew six hundred men with an ox goad. Judges 3: 31; 1 Sam. 13: 21. It is applied metaphorically to the energy imparted by the words of the wise. Ecc. 12: 11. The goad is alluded to in Acts 9: 5; Acts 26: 14, translated 'pricks:' if the ox kicked against the goad, he only hurt himself the more: as do all those who oppose God.