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Shamgar the Judge (שַׁמְגַּר, shamgar בֶּן־עֲנָת, ben-anath). Third in the list of deliverers of Israel in the book of Judges; killed 600 Philistines with an oxgoad.
Shamgar’s name occurs twice (Judg 3:31; 5:6). His story often is treated as an appendix to the Ehud story (Judg 3:12–30) rather than as a separate cycle, for the following reasons:
• Judges 3:31 lacks the standard formulae that frame the other judge/deliverer stories.
• The 80 years of peace at the end of the Ehud story—double the standard and symbolic 40 years (Judg 3:11, 5:31, 8:28)—might cover Ehud’s 40 years plus 40 more for Shamgar.
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