אֹבֶן
oven · birthstool; potter's wheel
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H70 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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oven (אֹבֶן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “birthstool; potter's wheel”.
"The two stones": the seat on which a woman gave birth. The same word names the potter's wheel (Jeremiah 18:3).
How to say it
o·ven
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- The stones a woman sat on while delivering a child.
- The spinning stone disc a potter shapes jars on.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- birthstool ×1
- wheel ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Exodus 1:16
He said, “When you help the Hebrew women give birth and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, kill him; but if it is a daughter, she shall live.”
- Jeremiah 18:3
So I went down to the house of the potter, and look, he was doing a work on the wheel.