Wheel
אֹבֶןStrong’s H0070oven (o-ven)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Oven is the Hebrew word usually translated “stones”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.”
Meaning
- Wheel, discpotter's wheel · bearing-stool, midwife's stool
How it's translated
- the stones 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
- Jeremiah 1
2 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
אֹבֶן oven · wheel
1) wheel, disc 1a) potter's wheel 1b) bearing-stool, midwife's stool
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wheel” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WHEEL, noun
- A circular frame of wood, iron or other metal, consisting of a nave or hub, into which are inserted spokes which sustain a rim or felly; the whole turning on an axis.
- A circular body.
- A carriage that moves on wheels.
- An instrument for torturing criminals; as an examination made by the rack and the wheel
All definitions
- A machine for spinning thread, of various kinds.
- Rotation; revolution; turn; as the vicissitude and wheel of things.
- A turning about; a compass.
- In pottery, a round board turned by a lathe in a horizontal position, on which the clay is shaped by the hand.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.