G2759 – kentron – κέντρον – prick, sting
- Strong’s ID:
- G2759
- Greek Word:
- κέντρον
- Transliteration:
- kentron
- Pronunciation:
- ken’-tron
- Part of Speech:
- noun neuter
- Usage Count:
- 5
- Search:
- Find “kentron” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from κεντεω kenteo (to prick); a point (“centre”), i.e. a sting (figuratively, poison) or goad (figuratively, divine impulse):—prick, sting.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
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
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.