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stoÌ„oÌ„l (××‘× ×™×, 'obhnayim): It is not clear what the character and purpose of this stool were Septuagint has no reference to it). It seems to have been a chair of a peculiar sort upon which a woman reclined in parturition (). The Hebrew word is in the dual number and primarily means “two stones.†The only other place where it occurs is , where it is rendered “wheels†Septuagint ἐπὶ τῶν λιÌθων, epÄ±Ì toÌ„Ìn lıÌthoÌ„n, “on the stonesâ€). In , the word translated in the King James Version as “stool†(כּסּ×, kisÌ£sÌ£eÌ„') is in the Revised Version (British and American) more correctly translated “seat.†See also BIRTH-STOOL; SEAT.