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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000444",
  "slug": "sea",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/sea/",
  "canonical_name": "Sea",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "SIMILE",
    "SYMBOL",
    "APOCALYPTIC_SYMBOL"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "APOCALYPTIC"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001010",
      "label": "The tossing sea as an inspired simile for the restless wicked",
      "classification": "SIMILE",
      "definition": "The restless, mire-casting sea is explicitly used as a comparison for the wicked who cannot find peace.",
      "not_always": "Isaiah’s comparison governs the wicked-restlessness sense in that passage; ordinary seas and other apocalyptic sea imagery must be interpreted separately.",
      "scope_note": "Isaiah’s comparison governs the wicked-restlessness sense in that passage; ordinary seas and other apocalyptic sea imagery must be interpreted separately.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001010",
          "statement": "Isaiah 57:20 explicitly compares the wicked to the tossing sea that cannot be quiet and casts up mire and dirt, directly establishing the legacy restlessness-of-the-wicked association in that 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": "Isaiah’s comparison governs the wicked-restlessness sense in that passage; ordinary seas and other apocalyptic sea imagery must be interpreted separately.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "HAMARTIOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001480",
              "osis_start": "Isa.57.20",
              "osis_end": "Isa.57.21",
              "display_label": "Isaiah 57:20–21",
              "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-001011",
      "label": "Sea as a universal symbol of human masses or wicked nations",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The canon does not establish every sea as a fixed symbol of human masses or wicked nations.",
      "not_always": "Revelation 17:15 explicitly interprets the vision’s waters as peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages; that inspired interpretation is vision-specific and must not be universalized to every biblical sea.",
      "scope_note": "Revelation 17:15 explicitly interprets the vision’s waters as peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages; that inspired interpretation is vision-specific and must not be universalized to every biblical sea.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001011",
          "statement": "Scripture does not establish “sea = masses of humanity or wicked nations” as a universal symbolic code; Revelation 17:15 explicitly interprets the waters of that particular vision as peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages, but this does not authorize the equation for every sea occurrence.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "SYMBOL",
            "APOCALYPTIC_SYMBOL"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 7,
          "grade_basis": "G7_INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "status": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "public_wording_class": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "scope_limitation": "Revelation 17:15 explicitly interprets the vision’s waters as peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages; that inspired interpretation is vision-specific and must not be universalized to every biblical sea.",
          "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-000028",
              "osis_start": "Rev.17.15",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Revelation 17:15",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001482",
              "osis_start": "Dan.7.2",
              "osis_end": "Dan.7.3",
              "display_label": "Daniel 7:2–3",
              "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": []
}