PADDLE occurs only in Deu_23:13, where it is used of a wooden tool for digging, a spade. In earlier English a small spade used for cleaning the plough-share was called a paddle, which explains the choice of this word in the Geneva Bible, whence it reached AV [Note: Authorized Version.] and RV [Note: Revised Version.] .
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
pad?'l (יתד, yāthēdh): Deu_23:13 (Hebrew 14), the Revised Version margin ?shovel.?
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Paddle
(יָתֵד, yathed' a pin [as often rendered], especially a tent-pin, Jdg_4:21; Sept. πάσσαλος; Vulg. passillus), the implement required by the Mosaic law to be carried by Jews for the purpose of covering their ordure with earth (Deu_23:13), evidently a common stake or peg of wood, sufficient to scratch the ground with.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.