{
  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000171",
  "slug": "crimson",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/crimson/",
  "canonical_name": "Crimson",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "SIMILE",
    "SYMBOL"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "COLORS_MATERIALS_STONES"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000111",
      "label": "Isaiah 1 explicitly compares sins to scarlet/crimson and cleansing to whiteness.",
      "classification": "SIMILE",
      "definition": "Isaiah 1 explicitly compares sins to scarlet/crimson and cleansing to whiteness.",
      "not_always": "The sin-color comparison is explicit in Isaiah 1:18; crimson does not thereby carry a universal sin meaning.",
      "scope_note": "The sin-color comparison is explicit in Isaiah 1:18; crimson does not thereby carry a universal sin meaning.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000111",
          "statement": "Isaiah 1 explicitly compares sins to scarlet/crimson and cleansing to whiteness.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "SIMILE"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 1,
          "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION",
          "status": "ESTABLISHED",
          "public_wording_class": "SCRIPTURE_EXPLICITLY_IDENTIFIES",
          "scope_limitation": "The sin-color comparison is explicit in Isaiah 1:18; crimson does not thereby carry a universal sin meaning.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "Full legacy wording remains subject to TSP-S3 unless the S2 statement exactly exhausts it.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "HAMARTIOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000213",
              "osis_start": "Isa.1.18",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Isaiah 1:18",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000091",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: S2 high-certainty anchor loci, MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S2 high-certainty anchor corpus, 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
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000419",
      "label": "Proposed crimson = suffering or sacrifice code",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The inherited wording adds suffering and sacrifice to the explicit Isaiah sin-color comparison.",
      "not_always": "Crimson/scarlet materials occur in cultic, royal, textile, and other contexts; color alone does not establish suffering or sacrifice as a universal meaning.",
      "scope_note": "Retain frozen Isaiah 1 sin-comparison claim while rejecting unsupported extensions.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000419",
          "statement": "Scripture does not establish crimson as a fixed symbol of suffering or sacrifice; those extensions must not be added to the explicit Isaiah 1 sin-color comparison without separate textual warrant.",
          "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": "The frozen Grade-1 sin comparison remains valid and is reused without duplication.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "HAMARTIOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000660",
              "osis_start": "Isa.1.18",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Isaiah 1:18",
              "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": []
}