אֹבֶן

1. potter's wheel Jer 18,3 (two discs revolving one above the other; name from likeness to mill-stones; see AW¹⁸).

2. ׳עַלהָֿא 2 Mos 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 Ploss^{Das 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. Collective^{l, plural lxvi. No. 435}; compare W. H. W[ard]^{PESoc. 2nd Statement 1873, p. 76}). Spiegelberg^{ZA xiv {1900}, 269 ff.; Randglossen 19 ff.} explained as the two stones [read אַבְנַיִם], i.e. bearing-stool of 'stones' = bricks, tiles.