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Symbol 28:17

2821

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 1611 often signifies heat, it follows that 3413 can mean heat oven in some technical contexts.
    As a genealogical sign 2821 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 2821 means danger, people living here will try to have you arrested, and the owner of this house is a brute, respectively. See 2215 in Group 22 and 3404 in Group 34, both of which have a similar meaning.