Biblical Types, Symbols & Patterns
Cummin
Claim-level biblical evidence review with contextual controls, canonical relationships, and preserved interpretive history.
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Evidence grades apply to individual claims, not to the headword as a whole. Strong biblical identification is kept separate from plausible or traditional interpretations, and unsupported proposals remain visible as negative evidence rather than being silently removed.
Cumin as literal crop within differentiated farming and tithing contexts
Cumin is an actual cultivated spice crop. Isaiah 28 uses its sowing and gentle threshing within a farming illustration; Matthew 23 mentions tithing cumin.
Context control: Literal agricultural referent precedes any proposed symbolism.
The legacy Cummin entry should first be reclassified as an actual cultivated spice crop used in Isaiah’s farming illustration and Jesus’ tithing critique.
Grade 1: Explicit biblical interpretationScope: The passages do not treat the seed itself as a theological life-principle.
Residual uncertainty: No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.
Scripture
Evidence sources
- Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison — Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 1
- BibleHub lexical summary — Hebrew kammon and Greek kuminon: cumin — Accessed/verified 2026-09-20
Proposed cumin = smallness/seed-life code
The inherited formula assigns “smallness” and “seed life” as intrinsic symbolic meanings of cumin.
Context control: Reject codebook meaning while retaining contextual rhetorical force.
Scripture does not establish cumin as a fixed symbol of smallness or “seed life.”
Grade 7: Insufficient biblical evidenceScope: A sermon analogy based on small seeds is not equivalent to canonical symbolic meaning.
Residual uncertainty: No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.
Scripture
Evidence sources
- Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison — Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 1
- BibleHub lexical summary — Hebrew kammon and Greek kuminon: cumin — Accessed/verified 2026-09-20
Lexical mappings
These are cross-tier mappings only; lexical definitions remain owned by the site’s lexical resources.
- HEBREW: כַּמֹּן kammon — H3646
- GREEK: κύμινον kuminon — G2951
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