Ox Goad 
 
 Mentioned only in Jud 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 GOAD 24508