{
  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000476",
  "slug": "south",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/south/",
  "canonical_name": "South",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "MOTIF"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "PLACES_DIRECTIONS"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001061",
      "label": "South as ordinary direction with contextual meteorological associations",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "South is primarily a geographical direction; in specific meteorological texts a south wind is associated with heat.",
      "not_always": "Meteorological effects belong to particular texts and climates; they do not make the compass direction itself a symbol of quietness.",
      "scope_note": "Meteorological effects belong to particular texts and climates; they do not make the compass direction itself a symbol of quietness.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001061",
          "statement": "Luke 12:55 explicitly associates the blowing south wind with scorching heat, and Job 37:17 links southerly conditions with heat/stillness; south therefore remains an ordinary direction whose contextual weather associations do not constitute an intrinsic symbolic code.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
            "MOTIF"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 4,
          "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN",
          "status": "REQUIRES_RECLASSIFICATION",
          "public_wording_class": "CATEGORY_OR_RECLASSIFICATION_NOTICE",
          "scope_limitation": "Meteorological effects belong to particular texts and climates; they do not make the compass direction itself a symbol of quietness.",
          "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-001569",
              "osis_start": "Luke.12.55",
              "osis_end": "Luke.12.55",
              "display_label": "Luke 12:55",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001570",
              "osis_start": "Job.37.17",
              "osis_end": "Job.37.17",
              "display_label": "Job 37:17",
              "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-001062",
      "label": "No universal south-versus-north symbolic opposition",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "Scripture does not establish south as “quietness of earth” in a fixed symbolic opposition to north wind.",
      "not_always": "North and south must be interpreted by passage; directional contrast does not by itself supply a theological polarity.",
      "scope_note": "North and south must be interpreted by passage; directional contrast does not by itself supply a theological polarity.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001062",
          "statement": "Song of Songs 4:16 can summon north and south winds together, while other texts use the directions geographically or meteorologically; Scripture therefore does not establish “south = quietness of earth” as the symbolic opposite of a fixed north-wind code.",
          "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": "North and south must be interpreted by passage; directional contrast does not by itself supply a theological polarity.",
          "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-001571",
              "osis_start": "Song.4.16",
              "osis_end": "Song.4.16",
              "display_label": "Song of Songs 4:16",
              "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": []
}