Biblical Types, Symbols & Patterns
Diamond
Claim-level biblical evidence review with contextual controls, canonical relationships, and preserved interpretive history.
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Evidence grades apply to individual claims, not to the headword as a whole. Strong biblical identification is kept separate from plausible or traditional interpretations, and unsupported proposals remain visible as negative evidence rather than being silently removed.
Shamir imagery exploiting extreme hardness/cutting ability
Jeremiah and Ezekiel use shamir/adamant imagery for engraving hardness and for the prophet’s divinely given firmness; Zechariah uses hard-stone language for resistant hearts.
Context control: Retain hardness/sharpness as an explicit physical property recruited into context-specific imagery.
Biblical shamir/adamant imagery explicitly exploits extreme hardness or cutting capacity, but the property is applied differently by context and should not become a universal gem code.
Grade 1: Explicit biblical interpretationScope: The project does not require certainty that shamir denotes the modern mineral diamond; the theological point rests on hardness, not gemological precision.
Residual uncertainty: No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.
Evidence sources
- Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison — Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 1
- BibleHub lexical summary — Hebrew shamir: adamant / diamond / emery / flint — Accessed/verified 2026-09-20
Proposed diamond = brilliancy code
The inherited wording assigns “brilliancy” as a symbolic meaning to diamond/shamir.
Context control: Reject brilliancy as an inspired symbolic definition.
Scripture does not establish “brilliancy” as a symbolic meaning of biblical shamir/diamond imagery; the relevant passages stress hardness/sharpness instead.
Grade 7: Insufficient biblical evidenceScope: Later gem symbolism or modern diamond associations cannot supply an inspired meaning absent textual warrant.
Residual uncertainty: No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.
Scripture
Evidence sources
- Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison — Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 1
- BibleHub lexical summary — Hebrew shamir: adamant / diamond / emery / flint — Accessed/verified 2026-09-20
Lexical mappings
These are cross-tier mappings only; lexical definitions remain owned by the site’s lexical resources.
- HEBREW: שָׁמִיר shamir — H8068
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