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# אֹבֶן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H70

**wheel** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

wheel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/70/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֹבֶן: wheel, disc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/70/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] wheel, disc.—Du. הָאָבְנָ֑יִם— potter’s wheel Je 18:3 (two discs revolving one above the other; name from likeness to mill-stones; v. AW18). עַל־הָא׳ Ex 1:16 prob. = sella parturientis, = δίφροι λοχειαῖοι bearing-stool, midwife’s stool (fr. likeness to potter’s wheel; on custom of labor upon stool v. PlossDas Weib, 2nd ed. ii, 35, 179 etc. & Cesnola Coll. fr. Cyprus, Metrop. Mus., N. York, No. 614, terra cotta fig. fr. 4th or 5th cent. b.c.; Descriptive Atlas of Cesn. Coll. I, pl. lxvi. No. 435; cf. W. H. W\[ard\]PESoc. 2nd Statement 1873, p. 76). SpiegelbergZA xiv (1900), 269 ff.; Randglossen 19 ff. expl. as the two stones \[read אַבְנַיִם\], i.e. bearing-stool of ‘stones’ = bricks, tiles.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: stones (2).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 18:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.18.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.18.3/#tree)

וָאֵרֵ֖ד בֵּ֣ית הַיּוֹצֵ֑ר וְהִנֵּה־ה֛וּאעֹשֶׂ֥ה מְלָאכָ֖ה עַל־הָאָבְנָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and I.went.down the.house of the.potter and there he \[was\].doing work on the stones

*JPS 1917:* Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he was at his work on the wheels.

[Exodus 1:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.16/#tree)

וַיֹּ֗אמֶר בְּיַלֶּדְכֶן֙ אֶת־הָֽעִבְרִיּ֔וֹת וּרְאִיתֶ֖ן עַל־הָאָבְנָ֑יִם אִם־בֵּ֥ן הוּא֙ וַהֲמִתֶּ֣ן אֹת֔וֹ וְאִם־בַּ֥ת הִ֖יא וָחָֽיָה׃

*Word for word:* and he.said when you assist.as.midwife (et) the.Hebrew \[women\] and you.will.look at the stones if \[is\].a.son he and you.will.kill him and if \[is\].a.daughter she and she.will.live

*JPS 1917:* and he said: 'When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, ye shall look upon the birthstool: if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/70.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/70/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).