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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

KICK

(laktizo): In the famous vision on the road to Damascus the unseen voice said to Saul: "Why persecutest thou me? It is hard for thee to kick against the goad" (Acts 9:4; Acts 26:14). The words are omitted from the best manuscripts in Acts 9:4. This was a familiar proverb in both Greek and Latin literature, and refers to the severer goading received by an ox which kicks back at the goad used to guide or urge him on. The words seem to mean that Paul's paroxysm of persecution was a painful as well as profitless resistance to the pricks of conscience by which God was leading him into the light.

Greek

2979. laktizo -- kick.
... laktizo. 2979a . kick. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: laktizo Phonetic
Spelling: (lak-tid'-zo) Short Definition: I kick Definition: I kick. kick. ...
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2979b. laktizo -- to kick
... laktizo. 2980 . to kick. Transliteration: laktizo Short Definition: kick. Word
Origin from lax (with the foot) Definition to kick NASB Word Usage kick (1). ...
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2979a. lakao -- kick.
... 2979, 2979a. lakao. 2979b . kick. Transliteration: lakao Short Definition:
kick. Word Origin another form of lasko, qv. 2979, 2979a. lakao. 2979b . ...
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Strong's Hebrew

1163. baat -- to kick
... baat. 1164 . to kick. Transliteration: baat Phonetic Spelling: (baw-at') Short
Definition: kick. ... root Definition to kick NASB Word Usage kick (1), kicked (1). ...
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Library

It was Friday Night, and Diamond, Like the Rest of the Household.. ...
... "Now really if the rest of the horses weren't all asleep, poor things"-they work
till they're tired"-I do believe they would get up and kick you out ... "Kick! ...
/.../macdonald/at the back of the north wind/chapter 32 it was friday.htm

Bit and Bridle: How to Escape Them
... the horse on this side." "Bless you!" said the driver, "if I were to touch that
mare, when I went near her in the stable at night, she would kick me like a ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 37 1891/bit and bridle how to.htm

The Conversion of Saul of Tarsus
... Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the
pricks.""Acts 26:14. HOW MARVELLOUS the condescension which ...
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Christ's Remonstrances
... it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.'"Acts 26:14. 'Can the
Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?' No. ...
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Acts xxv. 23
... and he brings forward the chief priests as witnesses, and the "strange cities,"
and that he heard Him saying to him, "It is hard for thee to kick against the ...
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The Figurative Language of Scripture.
... But it may be embodied in a sentence, thus: "It is hard for thee to kick against
the pricks" (Acts 26:14), where Saul's conduct in persecuting Christ's ...
/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter xxxv the figurative language.htm

Christ's Peace
... the outer world. 'It is hard to kick against the pricks,' but if you do
not kick against them, they will not prick you. We beat ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture i/christs peace.htm

The Third Beatitude
... upon us, unless we have something more than natural strength bestowed upon us, we
are all but certain, like fractious children when beaten, to kick and plunge ...
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His Conversion
... What else can be meant by the word with which the Lord saluted him: "It is hard
for thee to kick against the goad!" The figure of speech is borrowed from a ...
/.../stalker/the life of st paul/chapter iii his conversion.htm

Hatred Without Cause
... and they submit themselves for the Lord's sake; but the many, especially in these
republican times, seem to have a natural tendency to kick against authority ...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To strike, thrust, or hit violently with the foot; as, a horse kicks a groom; a man kicks a dog.

2. (v. i.) To thrust out the foot or feet with violence; to strike out with the foot or feet, as in defense or in bad temper; esp., to strike backward, as a horse does, or to have a habit of doing so. Hence, figuratively: To show ugly resistance, opposition, or hostility; to spurn.

3. (v. i.) To recoil; -- said of a musket, cannon, etc.

4. (n.) A blow with the foot or feet; a striking or thrust with the foot.

5. (n.) The projection on the tang of the blade of a pocket knife, which prevents the edge of the blade from striking the spring.

6. (n.) A projection in a mold, to form a depression in the surface of the brick.

7. (n.) The recoil of a musket or other firearm, when discharged.

Thesaurus

Kick (8 Occurrences)
... discharged. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. KICK. (laktizo ... me? It is hard for
thee to kick against the goad" (Acts 9:4; Acts 26:14). The ...
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Goad (2 Occurrences)
... The expression (Acts 9:5, omitted in the RV), "It is hard for thee to kick against
the pricks", ie, against the goad, was proverbial for unavailing resistance ...
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Spurn (13 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To drive back or away, as with the foot; to
kick. 2. (vt ... contempt. 3. (vi) To kick or toss up the heels. 4 ...
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Goads (4 Occurrences)
... persecutest. It is hard for thee to kick against the goads. (WBS). ... me? It is hard
for you to kick against the goads.' (WEB DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Fling (5 Occurrences)
... fling a party in litigation. 4. (vi) To throw; to wince; to flounce; as,
the horse began to kick and fling. 5. (vi) To cast in the ...
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Persecutest (7 Occurrences)
... And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick
against the pricks. ... it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. ...
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Pricks (4 Occurrences)
... And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick
against the pricks. (KJV YLT). ... it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. ...
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Persecute (48 Occurrences)
... And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick
against the pricks. ... it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. ...
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Kicked (9 Occurrences)

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Kib'za-im (1 Occurrence)
Kib'za-im. Kibzaim, Kib'za-im. Kick . Multi-Version Concordance Kib'za-im
(1 Occurrence). ... (See RSV). Kibzaim, Kib'za-im. Kick . Reference Bible.
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Bible Concordance

Kick (8 Occurrences)

Acts 9:5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
(KJV WBS YLT)

Acts 26:14 When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language,'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 26:15 and if at My statutes ye kick, and if My judgments your soul loathe, so as not to do all My commands -- to your breaking My covenant --
(YLT)

1 Samuel 2:29 Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?'
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS)

Psalms 106:24 And they kick against the desirable land, They have not given credence to His word.
(YLT)

Jeremiah 6:19 Hear, O earth, lo, I am bringing evil on this people, The fruit of their devices, For to My words they gave no attention, And My law -- they kick against it.
(YLT)

Jeremiah 31:37 Thus said Jehovah: If the heavens above be measured, And the foundations of earth below searched, Even I kick against all the seed of Israel, For all that they have done, An affirmation of Jehovah.
(YLT)

Ezekiel 20:16 Because against My judgments they did kick, And in My statutes they have not walked, And My sabbaths they have polluted, For after their idols their heart is going.
(YLT)

Subtopics

Kick

Related Terms

Goad (2 Occurrences)

Spurn (13 Occurrences)

Goads (4 Occurrences)

Fling (5 Occurrences)

Persecutest (7 Occurrences)

Pricks (4 Occurrences)

Persecute (48 Occurrences)

Kicked (9 Occurrences)

Kib'za-im (1 Occurrence)