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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000438",
  "slug": "sand",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/sand/",
  "canonical_name": "Sand",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "SIMILE",
    "SYMBOL"
  ],
  "modules": [],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001000",
      "label": "Sand as an inspired simile of innumerable Abrahamic descendants",
      "classification": "SIMILE",
      "definition": "Sand-of-the-seashore language explicitly functions as a comparison for the innumerable multitude of Abrahamic descendants.",
      "not_always": "The comparison concerns innumerable multitude in the cited promise texts; it does not make every occurrence of sand symbolic of Abrahamic descendants.",
      "scope_note": "The comparison concerns innumerable multitude in the cited promise texts; it does not make every occurrence of sand symbolic of Abrahamic descendants.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001000",
          "statement": "Genesis 22:17 and 32:12 explicitly compare Abraham’s offspring to the sand of the seashore to express innumerable multitude, establishing the legacy “multitudinous seed” association as a context-specific inspired simile.",
          "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 comparison concerns innumerable multitude in the cited promise texts; it does not make every occurrence of sand symbolic of Abrahamic descendants.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "COVENANT",
            "ISRAELOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001258",
              "osis_start": "Gen.22.17",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Genesis 22:17",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001461",
              "osis_start": "Gen.32.12",
              "osis_end": "Gen.32.12",
              "display_label": "Genesis 32:12",
              "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": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001001",
      "label": "Sand as a code for the unsaved or merely earthly seed of Abraham",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The proposed distinction in which sand specifically denotes unsaved or merely earthly Abrahamic descendants is not established by inspired interpretation.",
      "not_always": "The sand comparison expresses multitude; Scripture does not contrast sand with stars as an earthly-versus-heavenly descendant code or identify sand-seed as intrinsically unsaved.",
      "scope_note": "The sand comparison expresses multitude; Scripture does not contrast sand with stars as an earthly-versus-heavenly descendant code or identify sand-seed as intrinsically unsaved.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001001",
          "statement": "Scripture nowhere interprets sand as the specifically unsaved or merely “earthly” seed of Abraham, nor establishes a sand-versus-stars code for earthly and heavenly descendants; those legacy additions lack sufficient biblical evidence.",
          "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 sand comparison expresses multitude; Scripture does not contrast sand with stars as an earthly-versus-heavenly descendant code or identify sand-seed as intrinsically unsaved.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "COVENANT",
            "ISRAELOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001258",
              "osis_start": "Gen.22.17",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Genesis 22:17",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001461",
              "osis_start": "Gen.32.12",
              "osis_end": "Gen.32.12",
              "display_label": "Genesis 32:12",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001462",
              "osis_start": "Rom.4.16",
              "osis_end": "Rom.4.18",
              "display_label": "Romans 4:16–18",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001463",
              "osis_start": "Gal.3.7",
              "osis_end": "Gal.3.9",
              "display_label": "Galatians 3:7–9",
              "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": []
}