Strong's #2759: kentron (pronounced ken'-tron)

from kenteo (to prick); a point ("centre"), i.e. a sting (figuratively, poison) or goad (figuratively, divine impulse):--prick, sting.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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kentron

1) 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

2) an iron goad, for urging on oxen, horses and other beasts of burden

2a) hence the proverb, "to kick against the goad" , i.e. to offer vain and perilous or ruinous resistance

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: from kenteo (to prick)

Citing in TDNT: 3:663, 427

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

Acts 9:5: "for thee to kick against the pricks."
Acts 26:14: "for thee to kick against the pricks."
1 Corinthians 15:55: "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?"
1 Corinthians 15:56: "The sting of death is sin; and the strength"
Revelation 9:10: "scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and"