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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000033",
  "slug": "gold",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/gold/",
  "canonical_name": "Gold",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "MOTIF",
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "COLORS_MATERIALS_STONES",
    "TABERNACLE_TEMPLE"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
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    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000065",
      "label": "Preciousness/value/splendor",
      "classification": "MOTIF",
      "definition": "Gold repeatedly marks material value and splendor in wealth, sanctuary, royal, and visionary contexts.",
      "not_always": "Value does not make the metal intrinsically holy or divine.",
      "scope_note": "Distinguish physical preciousness from theological symbolism.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000065",
          "statement": "Gold is strongly and recurrently associated with preciousness, wealth, splendor, and high-status/sanctuary objects; these associations arise from material value and context rather than an intrinsic theological code.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "MOTIF"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 4,
          "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN",
          "status": "STRONGLY_SUPPORTED",
          "public_wording_class": "CANONICAL_MOTIF",
          "scope_limitation": "Value/splendor is recurrent; kingship and sanctuary are subsets, not the lexical meaning of gold.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "Treat gold first as valuable material, then assess royal/cultic/visionary function by context.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "Some sanctuary typologies assign gold to deity; that remains interpretive history unless textually established.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER",
            "CHRISTOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000139",
              "osis_start": "Gen.13.2",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Genesis 13:2",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000135",
              "osis_start": "Exod.25.10",
              "osis_end": "Exod.25.22",
              "display_label": "Exodus 25:10-22",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000137",
              "osis_start": "1Kgs.6.20",
              "osis_end": "1Kgs.6.22",
              "display_label": "1 Kings 6:20-22",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000138",
              "osis_start": "Rev.21.18",
              "osis_end": "Rev.21.21",
              "display_label": "Revelation 21:18-21",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000136",
              "osis_start": "Exod.32.4",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Exodus 32:4",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000048",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with ESV/NET comparison",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 7",
              "locator": null,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            },
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000052",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Gold - biblical usage survey",
              "publication_data": "Bible.org Blogs",
              "locator": "https://blogs.bible.org/gold/",
              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "SCHOLARLY_ARGUMENT",
                "HISTORICAL_BACKGROUND"
              ],
              "locator_targets": [
                {
                  "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL",
                  "target": "https://blogs.bible.org/gold/"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000066",
      "label": "Alleged divinity/kingship code",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "Some typological systems assign gold a divinity or kingship meaning.",
      "not_always": "Scripture does not establish a universal equation.",
      "scope_note": "Assess narrower associations passage by passage.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000066",
          "statement": "The fixed legacy equation gold = kingship, kingdom glory, God or gods is not established by Scripture; gold occurs in sacred, royal, ordinary, commercial, and idolatrous settings.",
          "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": "Kingship/glory can be contextual, but deity is not a universal gold meaning.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "Use preciousness/value as broad material association and classify narrower meanings per passage.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "Royal and sanctuary concentration makes traditional associations understandable but not universal.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER",
            "CHRISTOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000136",
              "osis_start": "Exod.32.4",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Exodus 32:4",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000139",
              "osis_start": "Gen.13.2",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Genesis 13:2",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000049",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Legacy Symbols & Types list supplied for TSP project",
              "publication_data": "User-supplied legacy corpus",
              "locator": null,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "INTERPRETIVE_HISTORY"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            },
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000048",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with ESV/NET comparison",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 7",
              "locator": null,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            },
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000052",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Gold - biblical usage survey",
              "publication_data": "Bible.org Blogs",
              "locator": "https://blogs.bible.org/gold/",
              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "SCHOLARLY_ARGUMENT",
                "HISTORICAL_BACKGROUND"
              ],
              "locator_targets": [
                {
                  "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL",
                  "target": "https://blogs.bible.org/gold/"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [
    {
      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000059",
      "language": "HEBREW",
      "lemma_unicode": "זָהָב",
      "transliteration": "zahav",
      "strongs_id": "H2091",
      "owner_tier": "TSP_MAPPING_ONLY",
      "semantic_domain_ids": []
    },
    {
      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000060",
      "language": "GREEK",
      "lemma_unicode": "χρυσός",
      "transliteration": "chrysos",
      "strongs_id": "G5557",
      "owner_tier": "TSP_MAPPING_ONLY",
      "semantic_domain_ids": []
    }
  ],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}