אֹבֶן
ʼôben · H70 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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pottery wheel
Flat, horizontal wheel made of stone, with a pointed projection on the underside; this projection sat in an indentation on a stationary lower stone and served as an axis around which the upper stone turned; used by a potter for making pottery
ExamplesJeremiah 18:3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, making something on the wheel.
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birthstool
Set of two flat objects made of stone and used in Egypt on which a woman used to sit or kneel while giving birth
ExamplesExodus 1:16 and he said, “When you are helping the Hebrew women to give birth and see them upon the birthstool, if it is a son, then you shall put him to death; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”
How it’s used In 1 role
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2 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 4
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Near synonyms 2 words
- גַּלְגַּל galgal · H1534 · wheel, pulley
- Hebrew synonym for the 'wheel' sense; גַּלְגַּל is a common Hebrew term for wheel or rotating object, sharing the wheel semantic with אֹבֶן but from a distinct root (גלל not אבן).
- אוֹפָן ʼôwphân · H212 · wheel
- Hebrew synonym for the 'wheel' sense; אוֹפַן is another Hebrew term for wheel (especially in Ezekiel's vision), distinct root from אֹבֶן.
In the other Testament 1 word
- τροχός trochós · G5164 · course, pattern, cycle
- Greek equivalent for the 'wheel' sense of אֹבֶן; τροχός is the standard Greek term for wheel, matching the primary sense of אֹבֶן (ʼôben, H70).
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- אֹבֶן names a wheel or wheeled device, as the potter's wheel on which a vessel is shaped.
Word family 17 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H70. oben [אֹבֶן] noun [masculine] wheel, disc — Du הָאָבְנָ֑יִם — 1 potter's wheel Jer…
[אֹבֶן] noun [masculine] wheel, disc — Du הָאָבְנָ֑יִם —
1 potter's wheel Jer 18:3 (two discs revolving one above the other; name from likeness to mill-stones; see AW18).
2 ׳עַלהָֿא Exo 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 אַבְנַיִם], i.e. bearing-stool of 'stones' = bricks, tiles.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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