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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000560",
  "slug": "white",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/white/",
  "canonical_name": "White",
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    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "IMAGE",
    "METAPHOR"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "COLORS_MATERIALS_STONES"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001213",
      "label": "White is first a visual color/appearance. Scripture uses white objects, hair, garments, and comparisons in different settings, so the color itself should not be treated as an au…",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "White is first a visual color/appearance. Scripture uses white objects, hair, garments, and comparisons in different settings, so the color itself should not be treated as an automatic equation with purity, righteousness, or holiness.",
      "not_always": "White may describe literal appearance, heavenly brilliance, cleansing imagery, garments, or other context-specific features.",
      "scope_note": "The color is multivalent; theological force comes from the associated object and passage.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001213",
          "statement": "White is first a visual color/appearance. Scripture uses white objects, hair, garments, and comparisons in different settings, so the color itself should not be treated as an automatic equation with purity, righteousness, or holiness.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
            "IMAGE"
          ],
          "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 color is multivalent; theological force comes from the associated object and passage.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
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            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001557",
              "osis_start": "Matt.28.3",
              "osis_end": "Matt.28.3",
              "display_label": "Matthew 28:3",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001558",
              "osis_start": "Rev.1.14",
              "osis_end": "Rev.1.14",
              "display_label": "Revelation 1:14",
              "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",
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                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
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              "locator_targets": []
            }
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          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001214",
      "label": "Scripture nevertheless recurrently employs whiteness in cleansing, purity, vindication, and heavenly-glory contexts: Isaiah 1 contrasts scarlet sins with becoming white as snow,…",
      "classification": "IMAGE",
      "definition": "Scripture nevertheless recurrently employs whiteness in cleansing, purity, vindication, and heavenly-glory contexts: Isaiah 1 contrasts scarlet sins with becoming white as snow, and Revelation repeatedly places white garments with the cleansed, worthy, or victorious. This strongly supports a contextual purity/approval association without creating a universal color-code.",
      "not_always": "Whiteness can also describe physical brilliance or appearance without a moral referent.",
      "scope_note": "Purity/approval associations are strong where the surrounding text supplies them; “white = righteousness/holiness” is not an unrestricted lexical identity.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001214",
          "statement": "Scripture nevertheless recurrently employs whiteness in cleansing, purity, vindication, and heavenly-glory contexts: Isaiah 1 contrasts scarlet sins with becoming white as snow, and Revelation repeatedly places white garments with the cleansed, worthy, or victorious. This strongly supports a contextual purity/approval association without creating a universal color-code.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "IMAGE",
            "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": "Purity/approval associations are strong where the surrounding text supplies them; “white = righteousness/holiness” is not an unrestricted lexical identity.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "SANCTIFICATION"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001555",
              "osis_start": "Isa.1.18",
              "osis_end": "Isa.1.18",
              "display_label": "Isaiah 1:18",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001863",
              "osis_start": "Rev.3.4",
              "osis_end": "Rev.3.5",
              "display_label": "Revelation 3:4–5",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001864",
              "osis_start": "Rev.7.14",
              "osis_end": "Rev.7.14",
              "display_label": "Revelation 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",
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                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
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              "locator_targets": []
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}