{
  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000440",
  "slug": "sapphire",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/sapphire/",
  "canonical_name": "Sapphire",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "IMAGE",
    "MOTIF",
    "SYMBOL"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "COLORS_MATERIALS_STONES"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001003",
      "label": "Sapphire imagery as precious heavenly and throne-scene splendor",
      "classification": "MOTIF",
      "definition": "Sapphire-like material recurrently appears in exalted scenes of divine presence, throne imagery, and New Jerusalem splendor.",
      "not_always": "The texts use sapphire-like appearance as precious visual imagery; they do not establish a universal sapphire code for every theological concept associated with the scenes.",
      "scope_note": "The texts use sapphire-like appearance as precious visual imagery; they do not establish a universal sapphire code for every theological concept associated with the scenes.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001003",
          "statement": "Exodus 24:10, Ezekiel 1:26 and 10:1, and Revelation 21:19 recurrently place sapphire or sapphire-like material in scenes of divine presence, throne majesty, or New Jerusalem splendor, strongly supporting an association with precious beauty and heavenly splendor.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "IMAGE",
            "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": "The texts use sapphire-like appearance as precious visual imagery; they do not establish a universal sapphire code for every theological concept associated with the scenes.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001465",
              "osis_start": "Exod.24.10",
              "osis_end": "Exod.24.10",
              "display_label": "Exodus 24:10",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001466",
              "osis_start": "Ezek.1.26",
              "osis_end": "Ezek.1.26",
              "display_label": "Ezekiel 1:26",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001467",
              "osis_start": "Ezek.10.1",
              "osis_end": "Ezek.10.1",
              "display_label": "Ezekiel 10:1",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000770",
              "osis_start": "Rev.21.19",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Revelation 21:19",
              "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-001004",
      "label": "Sapphire as a fixed biblical symbol of hardness",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The physical hardness associated with modern sapphire is not given an inspired symbolic interpretation in the biblical sapphire passages.",
      "not_always": "Material properties may inform background description, but a physical property must not be promoted into a theological symbol without textual control.",
      "scope_note": "Material properties may inform background description, but a physical property must not be promoted into a theological symbol without textual control.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001004",
          "statement": "No biblical passage interprets sapphire as a symbol of hardness; the legacy hardness equation therefore lacks sufficient biblical evidence, irrespective of questions about the precise ancient mineral denoted by the translated gemstone term.",
          "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": "Material properties may inform background description, but a physical property must not be promoted into a theological symbol without textual control.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001465",
              "osis_start": "Exod.24.10",
              "osis_end": "Exod.24.10",
              "display_label": "Exodus 24:10",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001466",
              "osis_start": "Ezek.1.26",
              "osis_end": "Ezek.1.26",
              "display_label": "Ezekiel 1:26",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000770",
              "osis_start": "Rev.21.19",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Revelation 21:19",
              "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": []
}