Quick Definition
wheel
Strong's Definition
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)
Derivation: from the same as H68 (אֶבֶן);
KJV Usage: wheel, stool.
TWOT Reference: 9a
Outline of Biblical Usage
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
אֹבֶן (o.ven) — wheel. 1) wheel, disc 1a) potter's wheel 1b) bearing-stool, midwife's stool
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m · אֶבֶן
Tools
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
Tools
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
1 EXO 1:16 literally: "the two stones" | this may also be a euphemism for the female genitals (see NJB).
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[אֹבֶן] n.[m.] wheel, disc. potter’s wheel
prob. bearing-stool, midwife’s stool
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