 Scholars also believe that the name of the individual may originally have been "Shammah", and became corrupted under the influence of the "Shamgar" in the Song of Deborah.The term translated as "oxgoad" is a biblical hapax legomenon, the translation into English being made on the basis of the Septuagint's translation into Greek.The other mention of Shamgar, that in the Song of Deborah, connects Shamgar with a low period of Israelite society.