'Shaft' in the Bible

Yet another battle occurred with the Philistines in Gob. On that occasion Elhanan the son of Jair the Bethlehemite killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

The one who touches them must use an iron instrument or the wooden shaft of a spear. They are completely burned up right where they lie!"