{"def":{"short":"a point (\"center\"), i.e., a sting (figuratively, poison) or goad (figuratively, divine impulse)","long":["a sting, as that of bees, scorpions, locusts","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"]]},"deriv":"from κεντέω (to prick)","pronun":{"ipa":"ˈkɛn.tron","ipa_mod":"ˈke̞n.trown","sbl":"kentron","dic":"KEN-trone","dic_mod":"KANE-trone"},"comment":"Since animals wound by their sting and even cause death, Paul attributes death, personified as a sting, i.e., a deadly weapon."}