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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000035",
  "slug": "talent",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/talent/",
  "canonical_name": "Talent",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "PARABLE_IMAGE",
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "WEIGHTS_MEASURES",
    "PARABLES"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000069",
      "label": "Literal weight/monetary unit",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "Talent is a large weight/monetary unit; Matthew 25 preserves that story-world sense.",
      "not_always": "Modern English talent=ability is not the lexical meaning of talanton.",
      "scope_note": "Establish metrology before parable interpretation.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000069",
          "statement": "The biblical talent is a literal large weight/monetary unit, not a lexical symbol for responsibility or natural ability; the legacy entry therefore requires reclassification before its Matthew 25 application is considered.",
          "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": "Metrology is the lexical-cultural starting point. Matthew 25 uses money; Matthew 18 uses the same unit for crushing debt.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "Treat TALENT as a weight/measure headword with separate parable senses.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "Modern equivalents vary, but that does not affect the basic metrological conclusion.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000145",
              "osis_start": "Matt.25.14",
              "osis_end": "Matt.25.30",
              "display_label": "Matthew 25:14-30",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000146",
              "osis_start": "Matt.18.24",
              "osis_end": "Matt.18.35",
              "display_label": "Matthew 18:24-35",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000054",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "ESV Global Study Bible - weights, measures, and talent",
              "publication_data": "Crossway ESV resources",
              "locator": "https://www.esv.org/resources/esv-global-study-bible/table-of-weights-and-measures/",
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "HISTORICAL_BACKGROUND"
              ],
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                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000048",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with ESV/NET comparison",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 7",
              "locator": null,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000070",
      "label": "Entrustment/accountability in Matthew 25",
      "classification": "PARABLE_IMAGE",
      "definition": "The master entrusts large sums and later requires an account.",
      "not_always": "This parable function does not make talent a universal symbol of responsibility.",
      "scope_note": "Keep parable lesson separate from lexical meaning.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000070",
          "statement": "Matthew 25 strongly teaches accountability for what the master entrusts, so the legacy responsibility/accountability idea is contextually valid at the parable level; it is not the universal symbolic meaning of the word talent.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "PARABLE_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": "The master entrusts resources, returns, settles accounts, commends faithfulness, and judges failure. Matthew 18 gives the unit a different parabolic function.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "Describe Matthew 25 as entrusted stewardship/accountability while preserving talent as literal money in the story.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "The exact real-world referent of the entrusted resources should not be over-specified beyond the parable.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER",
            "ESCHATOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000145",
              "osis_start": "Matt.25.14",
              "osis_end": "Matt.25.30",
              "display_label": "Matthew 25:14-30",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000146",
              "osis_start": "Matt.18.24",
              "osis_end": "Matt.18.35",
              "display_label": "Matthew 18:24-35",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000048",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with ESV/NET comparison",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 7",
              "locator": null,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            },
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000054",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "ESV Global Study Bible - weights, measures, and talent",
              "publication_data": "Crossway ESV resources",
              "locator": "https://www.esv.org/resources/esv-global-study-bible/table-of-weights-and-measures/",
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "HISTORICAL_BACKGROUND"
              ],
              "locator_targets": [
                {
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                  "target": "https://www.esv.org/resources/esv-global-study-bible/table-of-weights-and-measures/"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [
    {
      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000063",
      "language": "GREEK",
      "lemma_unicode": "τάλαντον",
      "transliteration": "talanton",
      "strongs_id": "G5007",
      "owner_tier": "TSP_MAPPING_ONLY",
      "semantic_domain_ids": []
    }
  ],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}