אֹבֶן
Used: 2 times · Key: 70 · BDB: אֹבֶן
Glosses
stones (2)
Meaning (OSHB)
wheel tree →
Meaning (BDB 1906)
wheel, disc. tree →
The whole BDB entry
n.[m.] wheel, disc.—Du. הָאָבְנָ֑יִם— potter’s wheel Je 18:3 (two discs revolving one above the other; name from likeness to mill-stones; v. AW18). עַל־הָא׳ Ex 1:16 prob. = sella parturientis, = δίφροι λοχειαῖοι bearing-stool, midwife’s stool (fr. likeness to potter’s wheel; on custom of labor upon stool v. PlossDas Weib, 2nd ed. ii, 35, 179 etc. & Cesnola Coll. fr. Cyprus, Metrop. Mus., N. York, No. 614, terra cotta fig. fr. 4th or 5th cent. b.c.; Descriptive Atlas of Cesn. Coll. I, pl. lxvi. No. 435; cf. W. H. W[ard]PESoc. 2nd Statement 1873, p. 76). SpiegelbergZA xiv (1900), 269 ff.; Randglossen 19 ff. expl. as the two stones [read אַבְנַיִם], i.e. bearing-stool of ‘stones’ = bricks, tiles.
Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)
Trees and pragmatics
Every English meaning of «אֹבֶן» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.
In the verses
וָאֵרֵ֖ד בֵּ֣ית הַיּוֹצֵ֑ר וְהִנֵּה־ה֛וּאעֹשֶׂ֥ה מְלָאכָ֖ה עַל־הָאָבְנָֽיִם׃
Word for word: and I.went.down the.house of the.potter and there he [was].doing work on the stones
JPS 1917: Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he was at his work on the wheels.
וַיֹּ֗אמֶר בְּיַלֶּדְכֶן֙ אֶת־הָֽעִבְרִיּ֔וֹת וּרְאִיתֶ֖ן עַל־הָאָבְנָ֑יִם אִם־בֵּ֥ן הוּא֙ וַהֲמִתֶּ֣ן אֹת֔וֹ וְאִם־בַּ֥ת הִ֖יא וָחָֽיָה׃
Word for word: and he.said when you assist.as.midwife (et) the.Hebrew [women] and you.will.look at the stones if [is].a.son he and you.will.kill him and if [is].a.daughter she and she.will.live
JPS 1917: and he said: 'When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, ye shall look upon the birthstool: if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.'
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