Symbol 28:17
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28:17 ·
This sign, the
horizontal rectangle was used already by the Egyptians, where it meant
garden pool. Today it is found in some 20 ideographic systems
and basically denotes an enclosed space, tank, or closed room. Since
often signifies
heat, it follows that
can mean heat
oven in some technical contexts.
As a genealogical sign
means buried.
In Diderot's Encyclopedia it is recorded as one of the
signs for magnet.
In the British and Swedish systems of hobo signs
means danger, people living here will try to have you
arrested, and the owner of this house
is a brute, respectively. See
in Group 22 and
in Group 34, both of which have a similar meaning.



