{
  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000036",
  "slug": "seven",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/seven/",
  "canonical_name": "Seven",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "MOTIF",
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "NUMBERS_CHRONOLOGY"
  ],
  "aliases": [
    {
      "alias_text": "7",
      "alias_type": "OTHER"
    }
  ],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000071",
      "label": "Recurrent completion/fullness structure",
      "classification": "MOTIF",
      "definition": "Seven repeatedly structures completed cycles and prominent visionary series.",
      "not_always": "Recurrent structure does not make every seven symbolic.",
      "scope_note": "Use only where literary/canonical recurrence is demonstrable.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000071",
          "statement": "Seven has a recurrent canonical association with completed or full structures, especially the creation week and Revelation's repeated sevenfold series; this supports a completion/fullness motif but not an unrestricted code.",
          "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": "The association is recurrent but must be demonstrated in each literary structure.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "Describe seven as a recurrent literary/canonical structuring number rather than an intrinsic symbol.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "The stronger word perfection can exceed what individual passages establish.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000147",
              "osis_start": "Gen.2.2",
              "osis_end": "Gen.2.3",
              "display_label": "Genesis 2:2-3",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000149",
              "osis_start": "Rev.1.4",
              "osis_end": "Rev.1.20",
              "display_label": "Revelation 1:4,11,20",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000150",
              "osis_start": "Rev.5.1",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Revelation 5:1",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000152",
              "osis_start": "Matt.15.34",
              "osis_end": "Matt.15.37",
              "display_label": "Matthew 15:34-37",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000055",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with ESV/NET comparison",
              "publication_data": "Canonical text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 8",
              "locator": null,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            },
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000058",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Introduction to Revelation - use of numbers",
              "publication_data": "Bible.org",
              "locator": "https://bible.org/seriespage/introduction-3",
              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "SCHOLARLY_ARGUMENT",
                "HISTORICAL_BACKGROUND"
              ],
              "locator_targets": [
                {
                  "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL",
                  "target": "https://bible.org/seriespage/introduction-3"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000072",
      "label": "Literal or context-specific sevens",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "Many occurrences simply count seven persons, objects, days, or units.",
      "not_always": "Literal counting must not inherit a universal perfection code.",
      "scope_note": "Immediate context controls.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000072",
          "statement": "The legacy formula seven = completeness/perfection, good or evil, is too broad as a fixed definition because Scripture does not interpret all occurrences of seven with that meaning.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 7,
          "grade_basis": "G7_INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "status": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "public_wording_class": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "scope_limitation": "Retain recurrent completion/fullness associations only where context supports them.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "Separate recurrent sevenfold structures from ordinary counts.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "Traditional biblical-number literature often uses stronger terminology than the text itself warrants.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000152",
              "osis_start": "Matt.15.34",
              "osis_end": "Matt.15.37",
              "display_label": "Matthew 15:34-37",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000056",
              "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-000055",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with ESV/NET comparison",
              "publication_data": "Canonical text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 8",
              "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": []
}