{
  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000423",
  "slug": "river",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/river/",
  "canonical_name": "River",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "MOTIF",
    "IMAGE",
    "SYMBOL"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "SPIRIT_IMAGERY"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000974",
      "label": "River imagery as life-giving divine provision",
      "classification": "MOTIF",
      "definition": "Major prophetic and eschatological river scenes recurrently portray life, fruitfulness, healing, and provision flowing from God’s presence.",
      "not_always": "The life-giving association belongs to specified theological river scenes; ordinary geographical rivers remain literal and may carry different contextual functions.",
      "scope_note": "The life-giving association belongs to specified theological river scenes; ordinary geographical rivers remain literal and may carry different contextual functions.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000974",
          "statement": "Psalm 46:4, Ezekiel 47:9, and Revelation 22:1–2 recurrently associate the river from God’s presence with gladness, life, fruitfulness, or healing, strongly supporting a life-giving divine-provision motif.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "MOTIF",
            "IMAGE"
          ],
          "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": "The life-giving association belongs to specified theological river scenes; ordinary geographical rivers remain literal and may carry different contextual functions.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "ESCHATOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001405",
              "osis_start": "Ps.46.4",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Psalm 46:4",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001406",
              "osis_start": "Ezek.47.9",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Ezekiel 47:9",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001407",
              "osis_start": "Rev.22.1",
              "osis_end": "Rev.22.2",
              "display_label": "Revelation 22:1–2",
              "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
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000975",
      "label": "Rivers of living water explicitly interpreted with reference to the Spirit",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "John explicitly interprets Jesus’ rivers-of-living-water saying with reference to the Spirit believers would receive.",
      "not_always": "John 7 supplies an explicit Spirit interpretation for its living-water saying; other river passages must be interpreted from their own contexts.",
      "scope_note": "John 7 supplies an explicit Spirit interpretation for its living-water saying; other river passages must be interpreted from their own contexts.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000975",
          "statement": "John 7:38–39 explicitly explains Jesus’ “rivers of living water” saying with reference to the Spirit whom believers would receive, establishing a bounded Spirit interpretation for that saying rather than a universal river = Spirit code.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "SYMBOL",
            "MOTIF"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 1,
          "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION",
          "status": "ESTABLISHED",
          "public_wording_class": "SCRIPTURE_EXPLICITLY_IDENTIFIES",
          "scope_limitation": "John 7 supplies an explicit Spirit interpretation for its living-water saying; other river passages must be interpreted from their own contexts.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "PNEUMATOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001408",
              "osis_start": "John.7.38",
              "osis_end": "John.7.39",
              "display_label": "John 7:38–39",
              "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": [
    {
      "canonical_relationship_id": "TSP-S6-R03-P03-REL-0088",
      "title": "Living water / rivers — the Holy Spirit",
      "canonical_statement": "John 7:37-39 explicitly explains Jesus' living-water/rivers saying with reference to the Holy Spirit whom believers would receive; the identification is textually bounded and is not a universal water = Spirit code.",
      "canonical_action": "MERGE_ADJUDICATED_DUPLICATE_OR_COMPLEMENTARY_CONCEPTS_PRESERVE_PROVENANCE",
      "guardrails": [],
      "relationship_status": "CONFIRMED_REFINED"
    }
  ],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}