Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
שַׁמְגַּר
- Transliteration
- Shamgar
- Pronunciation
- sham-gar'
- Language
- Hebrew
- Indexed occurrences
- 2
Glosses
Shamgar.
Lexicon definition
Shamgar, an Israelite judge
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Shamgar
Named a stranger; he is here a stranger Shamgar is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “named a stranger; he is here a stranger.” This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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- Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
- Historical Reference: concordance
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- Subject type
- Subject
- Strong’s
- H8044
- Hebrew
- שַׁמְגַּר · Shamgar
- Name meaning
- named a stranger; he is here a stranger According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Strong’s and original-language information
H8044
Greek lexical coverage
No safely matched Greek Strong’s entry
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Complete dictionary entries
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Shamgar
named a stranger; he is here a stranger
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Concordance
Strong's Concordance
Shamgar
Indexed occurrences: 2
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All Scripture references3 references
Judges 2
Acts 1
Topical Bible
Nave's Topical Bible
SHAMGAR
Entry:
Nave’s Topical Bible references for SHAMGAR.
Indexed references: 1
Scripture references:
Source: Nave's Topical Bible · View data sources
Bible Names
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Shamgar
Meaning:
named a stranger; he is here a stranger
Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources
Sources
- Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
- Historical Reference: concordance
- Historical Reference: Installed reference work
Related UNLEARN Content5 items
Topic
SHAMGAR
Nave’s Topical Bible references for SHAMGAR.
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Anath
An answer; i.e., to "prayer", the father of Shamgar, who was one of the judges of Israel (Judg. 3:31).
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Goad
(Heb. malmad, only in Judg. 3: 31), an instrument used by ploughmen for guiding their oxen. Shamgar slew six hundred Philistines with an ox-goad. "The goad is a formidable weapon. It is sometimes ten feet long, and has a sharp point. We could now see that the feat of Shamgar was not so very wonderful as some have been accustomed to think." In 1 Sam. 13:21, a different Hebrew word is used, dorban, meaning something pointed. The expression (Acts 9:5, omitted in the R.V.), "It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks", i.e., against the goad, was proverbial for unavailing resistance to superior power.
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Ox goad
Mentioned only in Judg. 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 [456]GOAD.)
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Shamgar
named a stranger; he is here a stranger
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