{
  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000528",
  "slug": "tower",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/tower/",
  "canonical_name": "Tower",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "METAPHOR"
  ],
  "modules": [],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001144",
      "label": "Biblical tower language includes literal defensive structures, while Psalms and Proverbs use strong-tower imagery for divine protection and security; the legacy strength/protection/safety association ",
      "classification": "METAPHOR",
      "definition": "Biblical tower language includes literal defensive structures, while Psalms and Proverbs use strong-tower imagery for divine protection and security; the legacy strength/protection/safety association is therefore well grounded when the context makes God, his name, or refuge the referent, but it is not intrinsic to every tower.",
      "not_always": "A tower can be literal, defensive, proud/self-exalting, or metaphorical depending on context.",
      "scope_note": "Protection/security is a bounded divine-refuge association; literal, military, architectural, and Babel contexts must retain their own force.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001144",
          "statement": "Biblical tower language includes literal defensive structures, while Psalms and Proverbs use strong-tower imagery for divine protection and security; the legacy strength/protection/safety association is therefore well grounded when the context makes God, his name, or refuge the referent, but it is not intrinsic to every tower.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "METAPHOR"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 4,
          "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN",
          "status": "STRONGLY_SUPPORTED",
          "public_wording_class": "STRONGLY_SUPPORTED_PATTERN",
          "scope_limitation": "Protection/security is a bounded divine-refuge association; literal, military, architectural, and Babel contexts must retain their own force.",
          "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-001744",
              "osis_start": "Ps.61.3",
              "osis_end": "Ps.61.3",
              "display_label": "Psalm 61:3",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001745",
              "osis_start": "Prov.18.10",
              "osis_end": "Prov.18.10",
              "display_label": "Proverbs 18:10",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000509",
              "osis_start": "Gen.11.4",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Genesis 11:3-4",
              "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": []
}