STRONGS H70:
Abbreviations
† [
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. עַל־הָא׳ 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 PlossDas 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. Collectivel, plural lxvi. No. 435; compare W. H. W[ard]PESoc. 2nd Statement 1873, p. 76). SpiegelbergZA xiv {1900}, 269 ff.; Randglossen 19 ff. explained as the two stones [read H68 אַבְנַיִם], i.e. bearing-stool of 'stones' = bricks, tiles.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs
Exodus
1:16
Jeremiah
18:3