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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000086",
  "slug": "barley",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/barley/",
  "canonical_name": "Barley",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "IMAGE",
    "SYMBOL"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "PLANTS_AGRICULTURE"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000231",
      "label": "Barley as lower-cost/common staple and poverty association",
      "classification": "IMAGE",
      "definition": "Barley is a real staple grain and in several biblical/economic contexts is cheaper or socially humbler than wheat.",
      "not_always": "Economic/social association is contextual; barley also appears positively in harvest, provision, offering, and miracle contexts.",
      "scope_note": "Economic/social association is contextual; barley also appears positively in harvest, provision, offering, and miracle contexts.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000231",
          "statement": "The legacy poverty/lowliness association is contextually plausible because barley is repeatedly presented as a lower-cost/common grain, but Scripture does not explicitly make poverty the grain's universal symbolic meaning.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "IMAGE"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 5,
          "grade_basis": "G5_CONTEXTUALLY_PROBABLE",
          "status": "PROBABLE",
          "public_wording_class": "PROBABLE",
          "scope_limitation": "Economic/social association is contextual; barley also appears positively in harvest, provision, offering, and miracle contexts.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "Barley may simply be the familiar lower-value grain appropriate to the narrative rather than an encoded symbol of poverty.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000398",
              "osis_start": "2Kgs.7.1",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "2 Kings 7:1",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000399",
              "osis_start": "Rev.6.6",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Revelation 6:6",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000400",
              "osis_start": "Judg.7.13",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Judges 7:13",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000100",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: TSP-S3 Batch 4 loci, MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Passage loci verified for TSP-S3 Batch 4, 2026-09-20",
              "locator": "https://classic.net.bible.org/",
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
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                {
                  "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL",
                  "target": "https://classic.net.bible.org/"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000232",
      "label": "Fixed barley = poverty/lowliness/low reputation code",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The legacy entry treats poverty, lowliness, and low reputation as the stable symbolic meaning of barley.",
      "not_always": "No single symbolic value governs all barley occurrences.",
      "scope_note": "No single symbolic value governs all barley occurrences.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000232",
          "statement": "The fixed symbolic equation is not established. Barley functions in ordinary harvest, providential provision, cultic, and miracle contexts as well as lower-cost food contexts.",
          "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": "No single symbolic value governs all barley occurrences.",
          "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-000401",
              "osis_start": "Ruth.2.23",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Ruth 2:23",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000402",
              "osis_start": "John.6.9",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "John 6:9",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000100",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: TSP-S3 Batch 4 loci, MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Passage loci verified for TSP-S3 Batch 4, 2026-09-20",
              "locator": "https://classic.net.bible.org/",
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": [
                {
                  "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL",
                  "target": "https://classic.net.bible.org/"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": [
    {
      "guardrail_id": "TSP-S6-R03-P03-GRD-007",
      "canonical_relation_status": "NEGATIVE_GUARDRAIL_INSUFFICIENT",
      "adjudication_outcome": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
      "decision_statement": "No positive canonical type/symbol relationship is promoted beyond the source evidence: The fixed symbolic equation is not established. Barley functions in ordinary harvest, providential provision, cultic, and miracle contexts as well as lower-cost food contexts."
    }
  ]
}