[אֹבֶן] noun [masculine] wheel, disc — Du הָאָבְנָ֑יִם —

1 potter's wheel Jeremiah 18:3 (two discs revolving one above the other; name from likeness to mill-stones; see AW¹⁸).

2 ׳עַלהָֿא Exodus 1:16 probably = sella parturientis, = δίφροι λοχειαῖοι bearing-stool, midwife's stool (from likeness to potter's wheel; on custom of labor upon stool see Ploss^{Das Weib, 2nd ed. ii, 35, 179 etc. & Cesnola collective} from Cyprus, Metrop. Mus., N. York, No. 614, terra cotta figures from 4th or 5th cent. B.C.; Descriptive Atlas of Cesn. Collective^{l, plural lxvi. No. 435}; compare W. H. W[ard]^{PESoc. 2nd Statement 1873, p. 76}). Spiegelberg^{ZA xiv {1900}, 269 ff.; Randglossen 19 ff.} explained as the two stones [read אַבְנַיִם], i.e. bearing-stool of 'stones' = bricks, tiles.



wheel, stool

From the same as 'eben; 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) -- wheel, stool.

see HEBREW 'eben

ḇā·’ă·ḇā·nîm — 5 Occ.
ḇā·’ā·ḇen — 6 Occ.
wā·’e·ḇen — 5 Occ.
wə·’aḇ·nê — 10 Occ.
wə·’e·ḇen — 13 Occ.
wə·hā·’ă·ḇā·nîm — 3 Occ.
wə·hā·’e·ḇen — 2 Occ.
wə·lā·’e·ḇen — 1 Occ.
’e·ḇen — 5 Occ.
wə·’aḇ·nā — 3 Occ.
’ă·mā·nāh — 1 Occ.
hā·‘ā·zer — 1 Occ.
hā·‘ê·zer — 2 Occ.
’aḇ·nêṭ — 2 Occ.
’aḇ·nê·ṭîm — 1 Occ.
bā·’aḇ·nêṭ — 1 Occ.
hā·’aḇ·nêṭ — 1 Occ.
ū·ḇə·’aḇ·nêṭ — 1 Occ.
wə·’aḇ·nêṭ — 2 Occ.
wə·’aḇ·nê·ṭə·ḵā — 1 Occ.