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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000202",
  "slug": "18",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/18/",
  "canonical_name": "18",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "SYMBOL"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "NUMBERS_CHRONOLOGY"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000480",
      "label": "Eighteen as literal quantity or duration in diverse narratives",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "Eighteen appears as a literal count or duration in unrelated contexts such as oppression, illness, and fatalities.",
      "not_always": "Recurrence of the same number in difficult events does not by itself establish a symbolic meaning.",
      "scope_note": "Treat each occurrence according to its immediate narrative function unless Scripture signals a numeric interpretation.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000480",
          "statement": "The biblical number eighteen is used as an ordinary count or duration in diverse contexts and is not intrinsically a judgment symbol.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 4,
          "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN",
          "status": "REQUIRES_RECLASSIFICATION",
          "public_wording_class": "CATEGORY_OR_RECLASSIFICATION_NOTICE",
          "scope_limitation": "Treat each occurrence according to its immediate narrative function unless Scripture signals a numeric interpretation.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000761",
              "osis_start": "Judg.3.14",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Judges 3:14",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000763",
              "osis_start": "Luke.13.11",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Luke 13:11",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000762",
              "osis_start": "Luke.13.4",
              "osis_end": "Luke.13.5",
              "display_label": "Luke 13:4–5",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000001",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 1",
              "locator": null,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000481",
      "label": "Proposed eighteen = judgment because “double nine”",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "No biblical text signals “double nine” as the meaning of eighteen or interprets eighteen as a universal judgment number.",
      "not_always": "The arithmetic is interpreter-generated, and Luke 13 uses eighteen fatalities while explicitly rejecting a simplistic guilt inference about the victims.",
      "scope_note": "The NUMBERS_CHRONOLOGY arithmetic firewall excludes unsignaled multiplication as positive evidence.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000481",
          "statement": "The legacy claim “18 = judgment (double nine)” lacks sufficient biblical evidence; Scripture never authorizes the arithmetic or assigns eighteen that fixed meaning.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "SYMBOL"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 7,
          "grade_basis": "G7_INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "status": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "public_wording_class": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "scope_limitation": "The NUMBERS_CHRONOLOGY arithmetic firewall excludes unsignaled multiplication as positive evidence.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "Several adverse narratives contain eighteen, but recurrence without inspired interpretation is insufficient for a number code.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000762",
              "osis_start": "Luke.13.4",
              "osis_end": "Luke.13.5",
              "display_label": "Luke 13:4–5",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000761",
              "osis_start": "Judg.3.14",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Judges 3:14",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000001",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 1",
              "locator": null,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}