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# goad

noun; verb (goad, goads, goaded, goading)

«goad» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (noun) A goad is a pointed stick used to drive animals on. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goad/#m1)
2. (verb) To goad is to push or prod someone to act, often by annoying or provoking them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goad/#m2)

### In the lessons

a farm tool in old tales (a stick for driving oxen); in talk, to goad someone is to urge or provoke them into doing something

### Examples

- The farmer used a goad to make the oxen move. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goad/#x1)
- Do not goad your brother; he will lose his temper. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goad/#x2)
- Children of the yoke and goad, pack and harness. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goad/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

In Judges it is an ox-goad, a long pointed stick that Shamgar used as a weapon. In Ecclesiastes wise words are called goads because they prod people toward right action.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads the saying about wise words as goads and well-fastened nails as showing that the teachings of the sages both urge people on and hold steady. The "one shepherd" is understood as God, the source of all true teaching.

### Examples

- And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who smote of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox-goad; and he also saved Israel. (Prophets JDG.3.31, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/goad/#x1)
- The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails well fastened are those that are composed in collections; they are given from one shepherd. (Writings ECC.12.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/goad/#x2)
- And the price of the filing was a pim for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks with three teeth, and for the axes; and to set the goads. (Prophets 1SA.13.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/goad/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «goad» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goad/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «goad» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/goad/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«goad» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/goad.html) on Mova free.