ʼôben — H70

Definition

masculine noun

a pair of stones (only dual); a potter's wheel or a midwife's stool (consisting alike of two horizontal disks with a support between)

1. wheel, disc
1. potter's wheel
2. bearing-stool, midwife's stool

Usually translated as

wheel, stool

Origin

from the same as H68

• Same as ʼeben (H68)

Occurrences

ʼôben occurs 2 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (1), Jeremiah (1)

• Exodus 1:16 — And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools (הָאָבְנָ֑יִם); if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
• Jeremiah 18:3 — Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels (הָאָבְנָֽיִם).