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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000032",
  "slug": "purple",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/purple/",
  "canonical_name": "Purple",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "IMAGE",
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "COLORS_MATERIALS_STONES",
    "GARMENTS"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000063",
      "label": "Royal/status association",
      "classification": "MOTIF",
      "definition": "Purple repeatedly marks high status or royal honor/mockery.",
      "not_always": "Purple does not mean royalty in every occurrence.",
      "scope_note": "Treat as recurrent historical-cultural motif.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000063",
          "statement": "Purple has a recurrent biblical association with royal or elevated status in Esther, Daniel, and the passion narratives; this is best classified as a strong historical-cultural/canonical motif rather than a fixed symbol.",
          "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": "Royal/status association is recurrent, but sanctuary and luxury uses prevent universalization.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "Purple is costly/status-bearing material whose force depends on context.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "Wealth and prosperity should not be collapsed into one theological meaning.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "CHRISTOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000130",
              "osis_start": "Mark.15.17",
              "osis_end": "Mark.15.20",
              "display_label": "Mark 15:17-20",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000131",
              "osis_start": "Esth.8.15",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Esther 8:15",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000132",
              "osis_start": "Dan.5.7",
              "osis_end": "Dan.5.29",
              "display_label": "Daniel 5:7,16,29",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000134",
              "osis_start": "Exod.26.31",
              "osis_end": "Exod.26.37",
              "display_label": "Exodus 26:31-37",
              "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-000051",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "John 19 commentary on purple as royal-status color",
              "publication_data": "Bible.org",
              "locator": "https://bible.org/seriespage/john-19",
              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "SCHOLARLY_ARGUMENT",
                "HISTORICAL_BACKGROUND"
              ],
              "locator_targets": [
                {
                  "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL",
                  "target": "https://bible.org/seriespage/john-19"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000064",
      "label": "Cultic/luxury/material purple",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "Purple also appears as sanctuary textile and luxury imagery.",
      "not_always": "These uses do not automatically carry royal meaning.",
      "scope_note": "Classify each occurrence by context.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000064",
          "statement": "The fixed legacy formula purple = royalty, wealth, prosperity is too broad; purple can function as royal/status imagery, sanctuary textile, or luxury imagery according to context.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "IMAGE"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 7,
          "grade_basis": "G7_INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "status": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "public_wording_class": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "scope_limitation": "Royal/status association is strong, but the universal composite definition is not established.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "Retain royal/status as one recurrent association and separate cultic/luxury uses.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "Revelation 17 combines purple with luxury, but that scene does not define all purple occurrences.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "CHRISTOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000134",
              "osis_start": "Exod.26.31",
              "osis_end": "Exod.26.37",
              "display_label": "Exodus 26:31-37",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000133",
              "osis_start": "Rev.17.4",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Revelation 17:4",
              "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": []
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [
    {
      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000057",
      "language": "HEBREW",
      "lemma_unicode": "אַרְגָּמָן",
      "transliteration": "argaman",
      "strongs_id": "H713",
      "owner_tier": "TSP_MAPPING_ONLY",
      "semantic_domain_ids": []
    },
    {
      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000058",
      "language": "GREEK",
      "lemma_unicode": "πορφύρα",
      "transliteration": "porphyra",
      "strongs_id": "G4209",
      "owner_tier": "TSP_MAPPING_ONLY",
      "semantic_domain_ids": []
    }
  ],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}