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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000184",
  "slug": "diamond",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/diamond/",
  "canonical_name": "Diamond",
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    "SIMILE",
    "IMAGE",
    "SYMBOL"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "COLORS_MATERIALS_STONES"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
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    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000444",
      "label": "Shamir imagery exploiting extreme hardness/cutting ability",
      "classification": "SIMILE",
      "definition": "Jeremiah and Ezekiel use shamir/adamant imagery for engraving hardness and for the prophet’s divinely given firmness; Zechariah uses hard-stone language for resistant hearts.",
      "not_always": "The exact mineral identification is uncertain, and the physical property serves different comparisons in different passages.",
      "scope_note": "Retain hardness/sharpness as an explicit physical property recruited into context-specific imagery.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000444",
          "statement": "Biblical shamir/adamant imagery explicitly exploits extreme hardness or cutting capacity, but the property is applied differently by context and should not become a universal gem code.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "SIMILE",
            "IMAGE"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 1,
          "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION",
          "status": "ESTABLISHED",
          "public_wording_class": "SCRIPTURE_EXPLICITLY_IDENTIFIES",
          "scope_limitation": "The project does not require certainty that shamir denotes the modern mineral diamond; the theological point rests on hardness, not gemological precision.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
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            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000701",
              "osis_start": "Jer.17.1",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Jeremiah 17:1",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000702",
              "osis_start": "Ezek.3.8",
              "osis_end": "Ezek.3.9",
              "display_label": "Ezekiel 3:8–9",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000703",
              "osis_start": "Zech.7.12",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Zechariah 7:12",
              "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": [
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                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            },
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000173",
              "author_editor": "BibleHub lexical summary",
              "title": "Hebrew shamir: adamant / diamond / emery / flint",
              "publication_data": "Accessed/verified 2026-09-20",
              "locator": "https://biblehub.com/hebrew/8068.htm",
              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
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        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000445",
      "label": "Proposed diamond = brilliancy code",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The inherited wording assigns “brilliancy” as a symbolic meaning to diamond/shamir.",
      "not_always": "The controlling shamir texts emphasize hardness, sharpness, engraving, or resistance rather than optical brilliance, and translations vary on the precise material.",
      "scope_note": "Reject brilliancy as an inspired symbolic definition.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000445",
          "statement": "Scripture does not establish “brilliancy” as a symbolic meaning of biblical shamir/diamond imagery; the relevant passages stress hardness/sharpness instead.",
          "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": "Later gem symbolism or modern diamond associations cannot supply an inspired meaning absent textual warrant.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000701",
              "osis_start": "Jer.17.1",
              "osis_end": null,
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              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000702",
              "osis_start": "Ezek.3.8",
              "osis_end": "Ezek.3.9",
              "display_label": "Ezekiel 3:8–9",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
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            {
              "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,
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                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
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              "locator_targets": []
            },
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000173",
              "author_editor": "BibleHub lexical summary",
              "title": "Hebrew shamir: adamant / diamond / emery / flint",
              "publication_data": "Accessed/verified 2026-09-20",
              "locator": "https://biblehub.com/hebrew/8068.htm",
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        }
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  "lexeme_mappings": [
    {
      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000112",
      "language": "HEBREW",
      "lemma_unicode": "שָׁמִיר",
      "transliteration": "shamir",
      "strongs_id": "H8068",
      "owner_tier": "TSP_MAPPING_ONLY",
      "semantic_domain_ids": []
    }
  ],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}