{
  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000458",
  "slug": "shoulder",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/shoulder/",
  "canonical_name": "Shoulder",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "METAPHOR",
    "SYMBOL"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "BODY_PARTS_IDIOMS"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001032",
      "label": "Shoulder imagery for entrusted royal responsibility and authority",
      "classification": "METAPHOR",
      "definition": "Isaiah places government on the promised ruler’s shoulder and the key of David’s house on the steward’s shoulder, using the body-part image for entrusted governing responsibility and authority.",
      "not_always": "The shoulder image is textually controlled by burden-bearing and office imagery in these passages; it does not make every biblical shoulder reference a symbol of government.",
      "scope_note": "The shoulder image is textually controlled by burden-bearing and office imagery in these passages; it does not make every biblical shoulder reference a symbol of government.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001032",
          "statement": "Isaiah 9:6 places the government on the promised ruler’s shoulder, and Isaiah 22:22 places the key of David’s house on Eliakim’s shoulder; together these texts strongly support shoulder imagery for entrusted governing responsibility and authority in those contexts.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "METAPHOR"
          ],
          "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 shoulder image is textually controlled by burden-bearing and office imagery in these passages; it does not make every biblical shoulder reference a symbol of government.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "COVENANT"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001523",
              "osis_start": "Isa.9.6",
              "osis_end": "Isa.9.6",
              "display_label": "Isaiah 9:6",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001524",
              "osis_start": "Isa.22.22",
              "osis_end": "Isa.22.22",
              "display_label": "Isaiah 22:22",
              "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-001033",
      "label": "Shoulder as literal or idiomatic burden-bearing rather than a fixed strength code",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "Biblical shoulder language also describes literal carrying and imposed burdens, preventing a universal equation of shoulder with strength or support.",
      "not_always": "Government/authority imagery is supported in specific texts, but strength and support must be established from each context rather than assumed from the body part itself.",
      "scope_note": "Government/authority imagery is supported in specific texts, but strength and support must be established from each context rather than assumed from the body part itself.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001033",
          "statement": "Scripture also uses shoulder language for literal or idiomatic burden-bearing, as in Genesis 49:15 and Isaiah 46:7; therefore the legacy equations “shoulder = strength” and “shoulder = support” are not established as universal biblical symbols.",
          "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": "Government/authority imagery is supported in specific texts, but strength and support must be established from each context rather than assumed from the body part itself.",
          "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-001525",
              "osis_start": "Gen.49.15",
              "osis_end": "Gen.49.15",
              "display_label": "Genesis 49:15",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001526",
              "osis_start": "Isa.46.7",
              "osis_end": "Isa.46.7",
              "display_label": "Isaiah 46:7",
              "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": []
}