# G2759 κέντρον

κέντρον (kéntron), Strong’s G2759: a point ("centre"), i.e. a sting (figuratively, poison) or goad (figuratively, divine impulse) KJV: prick, sting. Occurs 9 times.

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*kéntron* — a point ("centre"), i.e. a sting (figuratively, poison) or goad (figuratively, divine impulse)

KJV: prick, sting

Occurs 9 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Acts 26:14](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/26?v=14) — When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you…
- [1 Corinthians 15:55](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/15?v=55) — “Death, where is your sting? Sheol, where is your victory?”
- [1 Corinthians 15:56](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/15?v=56) — The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
- [Revelation 9:10](https://besorah.bible/besorah/revelation/9?v=10) — They have tails like those of scorpions, with stingers. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.
- [Sirach 38:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/38?v=25) — How could he become wise who holds the plow, who glories in the shaft of the goad, who drives oxen and is occupied in…
- [4 Maccabees 14:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/4-maccabees/14?v=19) — Even bees, at the season of honey-making, attack all who approach, and pierce with their sting, as with a sword, those…