Jeremiah 18:3

“Then I went down to the potter’s house, etc.] He did as the Lord commanded him; he was obedient to the divine will; he went to hear what the Lord had to say to him there, and to observe such things, from whence he might learn instruction for himself and others: and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels; the Targum renders it “upon a seat”; or “his seats”, as Junius and Tremellius; but it signifies not the instrument on which the potter sat while he worked, but that on which he did his work. The Septuagint version renders it, “on stones”f375; and R. Jonahf376 says, that in some countries the potter’s instrument is in the likeness of two millstones, the lowermost is the greatest, and the…”

“wheels--literally, "on both stones." The potter's horizontal lathe consisted of two round plates, the lower one larger, the upper smaller; of stone originally, but afterwards of wood. On the upper the potter moulded the clay into what shapes he pleased. They are found represented in Egyptian remains. In Exo 1:16 alone is the Hebrew word found elsewhere, but in a different sense.”

“The wheels - literally, “the two wheels.” The lower one was worked by the feet to give motion to the upper one, which was a flat disc or plate of wood, on which the potter laid the clay, and moulded it with his fingers as it revolved rapidly. return to 'Top of Page'”

“I went: Jon 1:3; Joh 15:14; Act 26:19 wheels: or, frames, or seats Jeremiah 18:4”