{
  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000459",
  "slug": "sickle",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/sickle/",
  "canonical_name": "Sickle",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "APOCALYPTIC_SYMBOL",
    "IMAGE",
    "SYMBOL"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "PLANTS_AGRICULTURE",
    "APOCALYPTIC"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001034",
      "label": "Sickle as harvest and judgment imagery",
      "classification": "APOCALYPTIC_SYMBOL",
      "definition": "Prophetic and apocalyptic texts use the sickle as the harvesting instrument in reaping imagery, including eschatological judgment.",
      "not_always": "Sickle imagery derives from harvesting and can serve judgment imagery; the implement itself does not carry one invariant theological meaning.",
      "scope_note": "Sickle imagery derives from harvesting and can serve judgment imagery; the implement itself does not carry one invariant theological meaning.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001034",
          "statement": "Joel 3:13 and Revelation 14:14–19 use the sickle within ripe-harvest imagery of divine judgment, while Mark 4:29 uses the sickle in ordinary harvest imagery; the legacy “reaping” association is therefore strongly supported, with judgment supplied by the prophetic/apocalyptic contexts.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "APOCALYPTIC_SYMBOL",
            "IMAGE"
          ],
          "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": "Sickle imagery derives from harvesting and can serve judgment imagery; the implement itself does not carry one invariant theological meaning.",
          "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-001527",
              "osis_start": "Joel.3.13",
              "osis_end": "Joel.3.13",
              "display_label": "Joel 3:13",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001528",
              "osis_start": "Mark.4.29",
              "osis_end": "Mark.4.29",
              "display_label": "Mark 4:29",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001529",
              "osis_start": "Rev.14.14",
              "osis_end": "Rev.14.19",
              "display_label": "Revelation 14:14–19",
              "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-001035",
      "label": "No biblical equation of sickle with the Word of God",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The canon does not identify the sickle as the Word of God; Hebrews instead compares God’s word with a sharp two-edged sword.",
      "not_always": "The adjective “sharp” does not transfer the sword comparison in Hebrews 4:12 to every sharp instrument elsewhere in Scripture.",
      "scope_note": "The adjective “sharp” does not transfer the sword comparison in Hebrews 4:12 to every sharp instrument elsewhere in Scripture.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001035",
          "statement": "No controlling biblical text identifies the sickle as a symbol of the Word of God; Hebrews 4:12 compares the word of God with a sharp two-edged sword rather than a sickle, so the legacy “sickle = Word of God” equation lacks 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 adjective “sharp” does not transfer the sword comparison in Hebrews 4:12 to every sharp instrument elsewhere in Scripture.",
          "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-001530",
              "osis_start": "Heb.4.12",
              "osis_end": "Heb.4.12",
              "display_label": "Hebrews 4:12",
              "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
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}