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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000535",
  "slug": "24",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/24/",
  "canonical_name": "24",
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    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "MOTIF",
    "SYMBOL"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "NUMBERS_CHRONOLOGY",
    "OFFICES"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001157",
      "label": "First Chronicles 24 explicitly records the ordering of Aaron’s priestly houses into twenty-four divisions/courses by lot for their service; the connection between the historical number twenty-four and",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "First Chronicles 24 explicitly records the ordering of Aaron’s priestly houses into twenty-four divisions/courses by lot for their service; the connection between the historical number twenty-four and priestly courses is therefore a real narrative fact, not a symbolic inference.",
      "not_always": "Twenty-four can occur elsewhere without referring to the Aaronic courses.",
      "scope_note": "The passage establishes a specific historical organization of priestly service; it does not define twenty-four as a portable symbol for priesthood or order.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001157",
          "statement": "First Chronicles 24 explicitly records the ordering of Aaron’s priestly houses into twenty-four divisions/courses by lot for their service; the connection between the historical number twenty-four and priestly courses is therefore a real narrative fact, not a symbolic inference.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION"
          ],
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          "evidence_grade": 1,
          "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION",
          "status": "ESTABLISHED",
          "public_wording_class": "SCRIPTURE_EXPLICITLY_IDENTIFIES",
          "scope_limitation": "The passage establishes a specific historical organization of priestly service; it does not define twenty-four as a portable symbol for priesthood or order.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "COVENANT",
            "OTHER"
          ],
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            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001768",
              "osis_start": "1Chr.24.1",
              "osis_end": "1Chr.24.19",
              "display_label": "1 Chronicles 24:1–19",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
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            {
              "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",
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        }
      ]
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    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001158",
      "label": "Scripture does not establish the number twenty-four itself as a fixed code meaning “priesthood courses and order.” Revelation’s twenty-four elders have probable priestly/cultic resonance in the frozen",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "Scripture does not establish the number twenty-four itself as a fixed code meaning “priesthood courses and order.” Revelation’s twenty-four elders have probable priestly/cultic resonance in the frozen predecessor adjudication, but the vision does not explicitly identify them with the twenty-four divisions of 1 Chronicles 24.",
      "not_always": "The number twenty-four must remain controlled by each passage’s own literary and historical setting.",
      "scope_note": "Historical priestly organization and apocalyptic twenty-four-elder imagery may be compared, but numerical identity alone does not establish symbolic equivalence.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001158",
          "statement": "Scripture does not establish the number twenty-four itself as a fixed code meaning “priesthood courses and order.” Revelation’s twenty-four elders have probable priestly/cultic resonance in the frozen predecessor adjudication, but the vision does not explicitly identify them with the twenty-four divisions of 1 Chronicles 24.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "SYMBOL"
          ],
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          "evidence_grade": 7,
          "grade_basis": "G7_INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "status": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "public_wording_class": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "scope_limitation": "Historical priestly organization and apocalyptic twenty-four-elder imagery may be compared, but numerical identity alone does not establish symbolic equivalence.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "The legacy symbol may derive from linking Revelation’s twenty-four elders with the twenty-four Aaronic divisions, an association the vision itself does not state.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000764",
              "osis_start": "Rev.4.4",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Revelation 4:4",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001768",
              "osis_start": "1Chr.24.1",
              "osis_end": "1Chr.24.19",
              "display_label": "1 Chronicles 24:1–19",
              "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"
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              "locator_targets": []
            }
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          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
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    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}