Goad - Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
Goad
[ 1,,G2759, kentron ]from kenteo, to prick," denotes
(a) "a sting," Revelation 9:10; metaphorically, of sin as the "sting" of death, 1 Corinthians 15:55,56;
(b) "a goad," Acts 26:14, RV, "goad" (marg., "goads"), for AV, "pricks" (in some mss. also in Acts 9:5), said of the promptings and misgivings which Saul of Tarsus had resisted before conversion.