אֹבֶןʼôben
wheel, disc
Pronunciation: o' ben · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H70
Meanings
1. potter's wheel (Jeremiah 18:3)
2. bearing-stool, midwife's stool (Exodus 1:16)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 2 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 1:16 “When you help the Hebrew women as they give birth, watch as they deliver. If the baby is a boy, kill him; if it is a girl, let her live.”
- Jeremiah 18:3 So I did as he told me and found the potter working at his wheel.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).