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it does not interpret the number 300 as a reusable symbol.", "claims": [ { "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001131", "statement": "Judges 7:2–8 records the LORD reducing Gideon’s force to three hundred men so that Israel could not boast that its own strength had saved it; three hundred is therefore the literal size of the divinely reduced force in this narrative, not an inspired definition of a numerical symbol.", "asserted_classifications": [ "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION" ], "type_kinds": [], "evidence_grade": 1, "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION", "status": "REQUIRES_RECLASSIFICATION", "public_wording_class": "CATEGORY_OR_RECLASSIFICATION_NOTICE", "scope_limitation": "The text explains why the army was reduced and reports its final size; it does not interpret the number 300 as a reusable symbol.", "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-001707", "osis_start": "Judg.7.2", "osis_end": "Judg.7.8", "display_label": "Judges 7:2–8", "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-001132", "label": "The Gideon narrative does not call the three hundred a “faithful remnant,” and other biblical occurrences of three hundred refer to unrelated quantities such as Enoch’s years after", "classification": "SYMBOL", "definition": "The Gideon narrative does not call the three hundred a “faithful remnant,” and other biblical occurrences of three hundred refer to unrelated quantities such as Enoch’s years after Methuselah’s birth, Samson’s foxes, and Solomon’s gold shields; Scripture therefore does not establish “300 = faithful remnant” as a universal number-code.", "not_always": "The meaning of a quantity of three hundred must come from its immediate context, not from Gideon’s army.", "scope_note": "Gideon’s three hundred may exemplify dependence on God within that narrative, but the number itself is not identified as remnant symbolism.", "claims": [ { "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001132", "statement": "The Gideon narrative does not call the three hundred a “faithful remnant,” and other biblical occurrences of three hundred refer to unrelated quantities such as Enoch’s years after Methuselah’s birth, Samson’s foxes, and Solomon’s gold shields; Scripture therefore does not establish “300 = faithful remnant” as a universal number-code.", "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": "Gideon’s three hundred may exemplify dependence on God within that narrative, but the number itself is not identified as remnant symbolism.", "strongest_alternative_explanation": "The proposed legacy equation may arise from association with one narrative or image rather than from a divinely assigned invariant meaning.", "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.", "theological_intersections": [ "OTHER" ], "scripture_references": [ { "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001708", "osis_start": "Judg.7.6", "osis_end": "Judg.7.7", "display_label": "Judges 7:6–7", "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD" }, { "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001709", "osis_start": "Gen.5.22", "osis_end": "Gen.5.22", "display_label": "Genesis 5:22", "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD" }, { "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001710", "osis_start": "Judg.15.4", "osis_end": "Judg.15.4", "display_label": "Judges 15:4", "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD" }, { "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001711", "osis_start": "1Kgs.10.17", "osis_end": "1Kgs.10.17", "display_label": "1 Kings 10:17", "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": [] }