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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000090",
  "slug": "bathing",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/bathing/",
  "canonical_name": "Bathing",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "CULTURAL_PRACTICES"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000239",
      "label": "Bathing/washing as actual ritual purification procedure",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "Torah purity legislation repeatedly requires washing or bathing the body in water as part of ritual purification.",
      "not_always": "Bathing can also be ordinary hygiene or serve other narrative functions; purification meaning must be established by context.",
      "scope_note": "Bathing can also be ordinary hygiene or serve other narrative functions; purification meaning must be established by context.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000239",
          "statement": "The legacy cleansing/purification association is substantially correct in ritual contexts, but it should be reclassified as an actual prescribed purification action rather than treated as a universal 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": "Bathing can also be ordinary hygiene or serve other narrative functions; purification meaning must be established by context.",
          "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-000415",
              "osis_start": "Lev.14.8",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Leviticus 14:8-9",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000416",
              "osis_start": "Lev.15.13",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Leviticus 15:13",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000101",
              "author_editor": "NET Bible translators and Bible.org conservative commentary contributors",
              "title": "NET Bible / Bible.org contextual controls for TSP-S3 Batch 4",
              "publication_data": "Online lexical, cultural, and contextual notes accessed 2026-09-20",
              "locator": "https://bible.org/",
              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT",
                "HISTORICAL_BACKGROUND",
                "SCHOLARLY_ARGUMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": [
                {
                  "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL",
                  "target": "https://bible.org/"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}