Goad <1,,2759, kentron>
from kenteo, "to prick," denotes (a) "a sting," Rev 9:10; metaphorically, of sin as the "sting" of death, 1Co 1:15,56; (b) "a goad," Act 26:14, RV, "goad" (marg., "goads"), for AV, "pricks" (in some mss. also in Act 9:5), said of the promptings and misgivings which Saul of Tarsus had resisted before conversion.
