{
  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000484",
  "slug": "staff",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/staff/",
  "canonical_name": "Staff",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "METAPHOR"
  ],
  "modules": [],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001073",
      "label": "Staff as literal support and a context-governed shepherding instrument",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "A staff is an actual support/tool, and in shepherding contexts it participates in care, direction, and protection rather than carrying an invariant abstract meaning of strength.",
      "not_always": "Support, guidance, protection, authority, or miraculous use of a staff depends on the passage; no single abstract meaning governs every occurrence.",
      "scope_note": "Support, guidance, protection, authority, or miraculous use of a staff depends on the passage; no single abstract meaning governs every occurrence.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001073",
          "statement": "Zechariah 8:4 depicts elderly people walking with a staff for support, while Psalm 23:4 and Micah 7:14 place staff/rod language in shepherding contexts of comfort and care; the legacy strength/guidance idea is therefore best reclassified as literal support plus context-controlled shepherd imagery.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
            "METAPHOR"
          ],
          "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": "Support, guidance, protection, authority, or miraculous use of a staff depends on the passage; no single abstract meaning governs every occurrence.",
          "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-001589",
              "osis_start": "Zech.8.4",
              "osis_end": "Zech.8.4",
              "display_label": "Zechariah 8:4",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001590",
              "osis_start": "Ps.23.4",
              "osis_end": "Ps.23.4",
              "display_label": "Psalm 23:4",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001591",
              "osis_start": "Mic.7.14",
              "osis_end": "Mic.7.14",
              "display_label": "Micah 7:14",
              "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": []
}