Goad
דׇּרְבוֹןStrong’s H1861dorvon (dor-von)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Dorvon is the Hebrew word usually translated “goad” and “like goads”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.”
Meaning
- Goad
- Goad
How it's translated
- the goad 1
- like goads 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
2 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
דׇּרְבוֹן dorvon · goad
goad Also means: dar.vo.nah (דָּֽרְבֹנָה "goad" H1861B)
דָּֽרְבֹנָה darvonah · goad
goad Another spelling of dor.von (דׇּרְבוֹן "goad" H1861A)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “goad” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GOAD,noun
A pointed instrument used to stimulate a beast to move faster.
All definitions and other forms of “goad”
GOAD, verb transitive
To prick; to drive with a goad
- To incite; to stimulate; to instigate; to urge forward, or to rouse by any thing pungent, severe, irritating or inflaming.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.