BDB59
[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
Exod 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.