Original Word: אָבְנָ֫יִם
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: oben
Phonetic Spelling: (o'ben)
Short Definition: birthstool [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

הָאָבְנָ֑יִם הָאָבְנָֽיִם׃ האבנים האבנים׃ hā’āḇənāyim hā·’ā·ḇə·nā·yim haaveNayimInterlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts