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People's Dictionary of the Bible

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Goad. Judges 3:31. A rod or pole about eight feet long, armed at the larger end with a piece of iron, with which the plowshare was freed from clods and earth, and at the smaller with a sharp spike, by which the oxen were urged on in their labor. In the hands of Shamgar, Judges 3:31, it was a powerful weapon.

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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Goad'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​rpd/​g/goad.html. 1893.
 
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