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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000141",
  "slug": "chain",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/chain/",
  "canonical_name": "Chain",
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    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "IMAGE"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "CULTURAL_PRACTICES"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000359",
      "label": "Chains as literal means of restraint, confinement, or imprisonment",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "Chains are real restraints used to bind prisoners, captives, or dangerous persons.",
      "not_always": "Physical restraint is the base sense; figurative or supernatural uses derive from that function.",
      "scope_note": "Physical restraint is the base sense; figurative or supernatural uses derive from that function.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000359",
          "statement": "Binding is primarily the literal function of a chain and therefore requires reclassification from free-standing symbolism.",
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            "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION"
          ],
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          "evidence_grade": 1,
          "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION",
          "status": "REQUIRES_RECLASSIFICATION",
          "public_wording_class": "CATEGORY_OR_RECLASSIFICATION_NOTICE",
          "scope_limitation": "Physical restraint is the base sense; figurative or supernatural uses derive from that function.",
          "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-000585",
              "osis_start": "Acts.12.6",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Acts 12:6-7",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000131",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: TSP-S3 Batch 10 loci, MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Accessed/verified 2026-09-20",
              "locator": "https://classic.net.bible.org/; https://www.esv.org/",
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
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                },
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                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000360",
      "label": "Chains as recurrent image or instrument of bondage and judicial confinement",
      "classification": "IMAGE",
      "definition": "Scripture uses chains literally and figuratively for confinement, bondage, and judgment, including supernatural imprisonment.",
      "not_always": "Chains may describe literal incarceration or visionary/supernatural confinement; the referent must be determined by context.",
      "scope_note": "Chains may describe literal incarceration or visionary/supernatural confinement; the referent must be determined by context.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000360",
          "statement": "The legacy binding/punishment association is strongly supported when restricted to contexts of confinement and judgment; oppression is not an intrinsic symbolic code.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "IMAGE"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 4,
          "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN",
          "status": "STRONGLY_SUPPORTED",
          "public_wording_class": "STRONGLY_SUPPORTED_PATTERN",
          "scope_limitation": "Chains may describe literal incarceration or visionary/supernatural confinement; the referent must be determined 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-000586",
              "osis_start": "Jude.1.6",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Jude 6",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000587",
              "osis_start": "Rev.20.1",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Revelation 20:1-3",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000131",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: TSP-S3 Batch 10 loci, MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Accessed/verified 2026-09-20",
              "locator": "https://classic.net.bible.org/; https://www.esv.org/",
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
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                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
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                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}