{
  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000023",
  "slug": "bread",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/bread/",
  "canonical_name": "Bread",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "METAPHOR",
    "SYMBOL"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "PARABLES",
    "CULTURAL_PRACTICES"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000045",
      "label": "Bread as staple/support of life",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "The Hebrew staff of bread idiom refers to food supply or the support provided by staple food.",
      "not_always": "The idiom is cultural/literal support language, not proof that every bread reference is symbolic.",
      "scope_note": "Use historical food culture and immediate context before assigning figurative meaning.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000045",
          "statement": "The legacy expression staff of life is best reclassified as ordinary/cultural bread imagery: Hebrew staff of bread denotes the food supply that supports life.",
          "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": "This claim concerns the staple-food idiom and does not assign a symbolic meaning to every occurrence of bread.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "English translations vary between literal staff and idiomatic supply/support.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "ANTHROPOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000089",
              "osis_start": "Lev.26.26",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Leviticus 26:26",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000090",
              "osis_start": "Deut.8.3",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Deuteronomy 8:3",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000091",
              "osis_start": "John.6.31",
              "osis_end": "John.6.35",
              "display_label": "John 6:31-35",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000093",
              "osis_start": "1Cor.11.23",
              "osis_end": "1Cor.11.26",
              "display_label": "1 Corinthians 11:23-26",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000033",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with ESV/NET comparison",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 5",
              "locator": null,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            },
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000037",
              "author_editor": "D. A. Carson",
              "title": "The Bread of Life: John 6",
              "publication_data": "The Gospel Coalition",
              "locator": "https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/sermon/the-bread-of-life-john-6/",
              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "SCHOLARLY_ARGUMENT",
                "HISTORICAL_BACKGROUND"
              ],
              "locator_targets": [
                {
                  "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL",
                  "target": "https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/sermon/the-bread-of-life-john-6/"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000046",
      "label": "Explicit NT Christological and communal bread uses",
      "classification": "METAPHOR",
      "definition": "Jesus calls himself the bread of life in John 6, while the Lords Supper uses bread with explicit reference to his body and Paul also uses one-bread imagery for corporate participation.",
      "not_always": "These are distinct contexts and should not be collapsed into one fixed bread definition.",
      "scope_note": "Record John 6, the Supper, and corporate participation as separate senses or sub-senses.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000046",
          "statement": "Specific New Testament passages explicitly give bread Christological or communal significance: Jesus is the bread of life, and the Lords Supper bread is explicitly related to his body; these meanings remain context-specific.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "METAPHOR",
            "SIGN"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 1,
          "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION",
          "status": "ESTABLISHED",
          "public_wording_class": "SCRIPTURE_EXPLICITLY_IDENTIFIES",
          "scope_limitation": "John 6 and the Lords Supper are distinct contexts and should be represented as distinct senses in the final dictionary.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "The theological relation between John 6 and the Lords Supper is debated; this claim does not require identifying them as the same discourse function.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "CHRISTOLOGY",
            "SOTERIOLOGY",
            "ECCLESIOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000091",
              "osis_start": "John.6.31",
              "osis_end": "John.6.35",
              "display_label": "John 6:31-35",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000093",
              "osis_start": "1Cor.11.23",
              "osis_end": "1Cor.11.26",
              "display_label": "1 Corinthians 11:23-26",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000089",
              "osis_start": "Lev.26.26",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Leviticus 26:26",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000090",
              "osis_start": "Deut.8.3",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Deuteronomy 8:3",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000033",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with ESV/NET comparison",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 5",
              "locator": null,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            },
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000037",
              "author_editor": "D. A. Carson",
              "title": "The Bread of Life: John 6",
              "publication_data": "The Gospel Coalition",
              "locator": "https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/sermon/the-bread-of-life-john-6/",
              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "SCHOLARLY_ARGUMENT",
                "HISTORICAL_BACKGROUND"
              ],
              "locator_targets": [
                {
                  "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL",
                  "target": "https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/sermon/the-bread-of-life-john-6/"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [
    {
      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000039",
      "language": "HEBREW",
      "lemma_unicode": "לֶחֶם",
      "transliteration": "lechem",
      "strongs_id": "H3899",
      "owner_tier": "TSP_MAPPING_ONLY",
      "semantic_domain_ids": []
    },
    {
      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000040",
      "language": "GREEK",
      "lemma_unicode": "ἄρτος",
      "transliteration": "artos",
      "strongs_id": "G740",
      "owner_tier": "TSP_MAPPING_ONLY",
      "semantic_domain_ids": []
    }
  ],
  "canonical_relationships": [
    {
      "canonical_relationship_id": "TSP-S6-R03-P03-REL-0030",
      "title": "Bread",
      "canonical_statement": "Confirmed in the source-supported contextual sense: Specific New Testament passages explicitly give bread Christological or communal significance: Jesus is the bread of life, and the Lords Supper bread is explicitly related to his body; these meanings remain context-specific.",
      "canonical_action": "PROMOTE_ADJUDICATED_P02_POSITIVE_OR_RECLASSIFIED_GROUP_AS_DISTINCT_CUMULATIVE_CLUSTER",
      "guardrails": [],
      "relationship_status": "CONFIRMED_CONTEXTUAL_RELATION"
    }
  ],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}