Biblical Types, Symbols & Patterns
Scarlet
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.
Isaiah sin comparison
Isaiah 1:18 explicitly compares sins to scarlet/crimson and cleansing to white snow/wool.
Context control: Keep passage-specific comparison distinct from literal color uses.
Isaiah 1:18 explicitly uses scarlet/crimson as a comparison for sin and whiteness as the corresponding cleansing contrast.
Grade 1: Explicit biblical interpretationScope: The Grade 1 result is passage-specific and does not universalize scarlet.
Residual uncertainty: Durable dye imagery may sharpen the rhetoric but is not necessary to establish the comparison.
Evidence sources
- Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with ESV/NET comparison — Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 7
- Mark 15 commentary on scarlet/purple royal mockery — Bible.org
Literal/contextual scarlet uses
Scarlet occurs as sanctuary yarn, Rahab's identifying cord, and garment color.
Context control: Immediate context controls.
The legacy SCARLET entry is a cross-reference to Red/Crimson; the sin/suffering/sacrifice formula found under those related color entries must not be imported as a fixed Scarlet definition, because canonical scarlet uses have several distinct functions.
Grade 7: Insufficient biblical evidenceScope: Isaiah supports a sin comparison in one passage, but sanctuary yarn, Rahab's cord, and royal mockery are not assigned the legacy three-part meaning.
Strongest alternative: Retain the Isaiah sin comparison as one sense and classify other uses separately.
Residual uncertainty: Later Christian interpretations of Rahab's cord remain interpretive-history candidates.
Evidence sources
- Legacy Symbols & Types list supplied for TSP project — User-supplied legacy corpus
- Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with ESV/NET comparison — Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 7
Lexical mappings
These are cross-tier mappings only; lexical definitions remain owned by the site’s lexical resources.
- HEBREW: שָׁנִי shani — H8144
- GREEK: κόκκινος kokkinos — G2847
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