{
  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000481",
  "slug": "spikenard",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/spikenard/",
  "canonical_name": "Spikenard",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "IMAGE"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "PLANTS_AGRICULTURE"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001068",
      "label": "Nard as a costly fragrant aromatic used in love-poetry and in Jesus’ anointing",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "Nard/spikenard is presented as an actual costly aromatic whose fragrance is part of its ordinary sensory and cultural use.",
      "not_always": "The aromatic quality is real and contextually meaningful, but nard is not thereby converted into a universal spiritual symbol.",
      "scope_note": "The aromatic quality is real and contextually meaningful, but nard is not thereby converted into a universal spiritual symbol.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001068",
          "statement": "Song of Songs 1:12 associates nard with fragrance, and John 12:3 records Mary anointing Jesus with costly pure nard so that the house was filled with the perfume’s fragrance; “fragrance” is therefore a literal property and narrative feature before any theological extension.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION"
          ],
          "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": "The aromatic quality is real and contextually meaningful, but nard is not thereby converted into a universal spiritual symbol.",
          "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-001579",
              "osis_start": "Song.1.12",
              "osis_end": "Song.1.12",
              "display_label": "Song of Songs 1:12",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001580",
              "osis_start": "John.12.3",
              "osis_end": "John.12.3",
              "display_label": "John 12:3",
              "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
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001069",
      "label": "No inspired equation of nard with Christ’s fragrance to the Father",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The Gospels connect nard with Jesus’ anointing and burial preparation, while Ephesians separately describes Christ’s self-offering as fragrant to God; Scripture does not equate the nard itself with that theological fragrance.",
      "not_always": "A theological association between the anointing, burial preparation, and Christ’s death is real in the Gospel narrative, but Scripture does not identify the perfume’s fragrance with Christ’s acceptability to the Father.",
      "scope_note": "A theological association between the anointing, burial preparation, and Christ’s death is real in the Gospel narrative, but Scripture does not identify the perfume’s fragrance with Christ’s acceptability to the Father.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001069",
          "statement": "Mark 14:3, 8 and John 12:3 connect costly nard with Jesus’ anointing and burial preparation, while Ephesians 5:2 separately calls Christ’s self-giving a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God; no inspired text identifies the nard or its fragrance as “the fragrance of Christ to the Father,” so the legacy symbolic equation is insufficiently supported.",
          "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": "A theological association between the anointing, burial preparation, and Christ’s death is real in the Gospel narrative, but Scripture does not identify the perfume’s fragrance with Christ’s acceptability to the Father.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "CHRISTOLOGY",
            "ATONEMENT"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001581",
              "osis_start": "Mark.14.3",
              "osis_end": "Mark.14.8",
              "display_label": "Mark 14:3–8",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001582",
              "osis_start": "Eph.5.2",
              "osis_end": "Eph.5.2",
              "display_label": "Ephesians 5:2",
              "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": []
}