Seeing a shelf signifies a person who keeps secrets and conceals faults, and a helpful woman. Climbing onto a shelf signifies a great and high office.
Seeing a shelf beside oneself signifies being provided either with a learned and intelligent child who knows various sciences or with an honorable and chaste woman who keeps one's secret.
Seeing a shelf has been interpreted in ten ways: a wife; leadership; relief; life; return from a journey; a woman's loss of her child; the pilgrimage; a lofty and exalted position; standing; and rank.
Seeing a new shelf signifies marrying a virgin; seeing an old shelf signifies a widow; and seeing the shelf break signifies loss of honor and esteem.
Seeing many objects on a shelf signifies benefiting from one's wife's wealth and circumstances; removing the objects from the shelf and cleaning it signifies wasting the wife's wealth.