Shamgar

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Shamgar
     The Philistines from the maritime plain had made incursions into
     the Hebrew upland for the purposes of plunder, when one of this
     name, the son of Anath, otherwise unknown, headed a rising for
     the purpose of freeing the land from this oppression. He
     repelled the invasion, slaying 600 men with an "ox goad" (q.v.).


     The goad was a formidable sharpointed instrument, sometimes ten
     feet long. He was probably contemporary for a time with Deborah
     and Barak (Judg. 3:31; 5:6).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Shamgar, named a stranger; he is here a stranger