This is clearly seen in 2 K 5' ' And the king of Syria said. Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel.' Its occurrences are Gn ll'-''-'(n}n voluntative, fr. 3n; to grant), 38"* ' go to, I pray thee ' (nJ"''tC ; f'e only remaining example of .ijn. Ex 1'°, was tr'' by Tindale 'Come on,' and this was retained in subsequent versions) ; Jg 7' ' go to, proclaim ' («) K-ip ' cry now ! ') ; 2 K 5' ' go to, go' (K2 TiS, lit. ' go, go in,' perhaps as Ball, ' dei)art thou [thitiier], enter [the hind of Israel]'; LXX AeCpo eiVfXflc) ; Ec2' ' "O to now' (Nj-nj^) ; ls5''Andnow, go to ; I will tell you' (c:nN Nj-ni;-ii(i nni;) ; Jer 18" ' go to, speak ' (nj-h^n) ; Ja 4" 5' ' Go to now ' ('Xyt fill). Tindale in his exposition of Mt 5"'-^ (Expos p. 124) has ' go to and prove it ' ; an<l (p. 128) ' Gk to, and judge their works' ; and in the Prologe to the Pent, he says, ' Then go to and reade the storyes of the byhle for thy lerning and comforte,' where the verbal force of the expression is always manifest. But he even uses 'went to' in Nu 11' 'And the children of Ysrael also went to and wepte and sayde : who shall geve us flesh to eate ? '
21. Go one's way : This full phrase sometimes represents an equally full expression in the original : thus, Gn 32' ' And Jacob went on his way,' Ilcb. "S.i ■is-in^, so 19-, Nu 24-", Jos 2'«, Jg 18™, 1 S l'» 26=' 28'22, Jer 28". But generally (always in NT) it is the rendering of a common verb with no adjunct. The verbs are Sm (Pr 20'^) ; yp: (Zee lO'-) ; Tl^n (Gn 12'" 14" 18" '248' 25" Ex IS-'', Jg 19'- '^ Neh 8'", Ec 9', Dn 129- ") ; ;3o5ifu (Bar 4'"); iropei'/o^ai (Lk 4^ V^ 17", Jn 4^, Ac 9" 21' 24=»); vTrdyu (Mt 5'-" S*- " 20" 27"', Mk 1« 2" 7-'^ 10='- '2 112 16', Lk 10^ Jn 8=' 16» 1S», Rev 16') ; and air^pxoixai (Mt 8** IS"-' 20* 22»- ^, Mk 11* 12'-, Lk S'x 193= 22*, Jn 4-« ll=«-*«, Ac 9", Ja 1^). Sometimes what appears to be the plu., but may be an old genitive, is used, 'go j'our ways.' The phrase is jjood idiomatic Eng., and is still used in Scotland and the north of England, but often it is too cumbrous, sometimes singularly so, as in Ja P* KaT(vbr]aiv Kal aTrtXriKvdev, which Mayor translates 'just a glance and he is off ' (RV 'goeth away'). AV has a few times rejected it when found in earlier versions, as Mk V Tind. ' And they leeft their father Zebede in the shippe with his hj-red servauntes, and went their waye after him ' ; Lk 8'* Rliein. ' And that which fel into thornes, are they that have heard, and going their waies, are choked with cares.' Shaks. has it often, as Hamlet, III. i. 132 — ' We are arrant knaves all ; believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery.'
22. Go the way: This phrase, which has no con- nexion with the preceding, is used both literally and figuratively. (1) Ru 1' 'and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah (^"1^3 ■i}"'?''!'.) ; 2 K 25* ' and the king went the way toward the plain ' (njTjjn Tj-ii TiVi, RV ' went by the way of the Arabah'j, so Jer 39* ; Jer 31-' 'set thine heart toward tlie highway, even the way which thou wentest' ('.fs^T tii^)." (2) Jos 23'* 'And behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth' (r\h'in -^iij j'-i!<n-'73 ^-jna Dvn) ; so 1 K '2^ ; Job 16=^ ' when a few }-ears are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return ' (ti^dn awN-x^ nixi).
J. Hastings. GOAD. — 1. p-i-i (3 without daijhesh, cf. |?-;p (once) and pnx ; see Driver, Text of Sam. p. 80, and refer- ences there) occurs in a corrupt pass.age, 1 S 13=' ' to set the goads.' A fem. form in plur. absolute is found in Ec 12", where we read that the words of the wise are as goads (nua-j'n;). 2. la^a (Siegfried- Stade ; Moore thinks ic^o probably the absolute form) only in Jg 3", nhere Shamgar is said to have killed 600 Philistines with an ox-goad (i?7=? •\\>^r\). The goad was a pole of some 8 ft. in length, ' armed at one end with a spike, at the other with a chisel-shaped blade for cleaning the plough, and on occasion would make a very good substitute for
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a spear' (Moore, Judges, 105). See further Agri- culture in vol. i. p. 49*, where the ox-goad is figured, and Schumacher, ' Der arab. Ptlug,' in ZDPV Tiu. 160 f.
In Apocr. ' goad ' occurs in Sir 38=* ' How shall he become wise that holdeth the plough, that glorieth in the shaft of the goad (Wrrpov)?' In NT ' goad ' (RVm ' goads ') is substituted by RV for ' pricks ' of A V in Ac 26" ' It is hard for thee to kick against the goad' (irpAs Khrpa XoxTifeix ; in Ac 9* these words do not belong to the true text). The same figure is employed by Greek and Latin writers (e.g. Pindar, Ptith. li. 173 ; Aesch. Agam. 1633, Prometh. 323 ; Eurip. Bacch. 791 ; Terence, Phonn. I. ii. 28). J. A. Selbie.