Strong's Number 2759
Transliteration:
kentron
{ken'-tron}
Word Origin:
from kenteo (to prick)
TDNT:
3:663,427
Part of Speech:
noun neuter
Usage in the KJV:
sting 3, prick 2
Total: 5
Definition:
- a sting, as that of bees, scorpions, locusts. Since animals wound by their sting and even cause death, Paul attributes death, personified as a sting, i.e. a deadly weapon
- an iron goad, for urging on oxen, horses and other beasts of burden
- hence the proverb, "to kick against the goad", i.e. to offer vain and perilous or ruinous resistance