{
  "anchor_set_id": "core-trilingual-foundation",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "description": "Canonical cross-language anchor set for EN, HE, and EL. Each anchor defines a formal semantic equivalence across all three packs, scoped by stated constraints. These anchors are the minimum required for the Alignment gate to pass.",
  "anchors": [
    {
      "anchor_id": "logos-word-creative-speech",
      "field_target": "logos.articulation.creative",
      "en": {
        "lemma_id": "en:word",
        "sense_id": "en:word:creative-utterance",
        "notes": "English 'word' in the creative/declarative sense — 'the word went forth'."
      },
      "he": {
        "lemma_id": "he:dabar",
        "sense_id": "he:dabar:spoken-creative-word",
        "notes": "דבר as divine or authoritative speech-act. Carries both the act of speaking and the thing spoken. The word is the event."
      },
      "el": {
        "lemma_id": "el:logos",
        "sense_id": "el:logos:creative-word",
        "notes": "λόγος in John 1:1 sense — the rational, creative, pre-existent Word. Not merely speech or reason in isolation but both unified. John articulated in Greek what the Hebrew already carried."
      },
      "constraints": ["creative-or-authoritative-context"],
      "tolerance": null
    },
    {
      "anchor_id": "existence-being-copular",
      "field_target": "existence.state.identity",
      "en": {
        "lemma_id": "en:be",
        "sense_id": "en:be:existence",
        "notes": null
      },
      "he": {
        "lemma_id": "he:haya",
        "sense_id": "he:haya:existence",
        "notes": "היה — to be, to become, to exist. The Hebrew copula is often implicit; when present it carries aspectual and ontological weight beyond mere predication."
      },
      "el": {
        "lemma_id": "el:eimi",
        "sense_id": "el:eimi:existence",
        "notes": "εἰμί — to be. In John 1:1 ἦν (imperfect) signals continuous pre-existent being, not merely occurrence at a point in time."
      },
      "constraints": ["copular-frame"],
      "tolerance": null
    },
    {
      "anchor_id": "beginning-origin-temporal-absolute",
      "field_target": "time.origin.absolute",
      "en": {
        "lemma_id": "en:beginning",
        "sense_id": "en:beginning:absolute-origin",
        "notes": null
      },
      "he": {
        "lemma_id": "he:reshit",
        "sense_id": "he:reshit:absolute-origin",
        "notes": "רֵאשִׁית — first, beginning, chief. In Gen 1:1 בְּרֵאשִׁית is anarthrous (no article), signaling primordial commencement before time itself was a container."
      },
      "el": {
        "lemma_id": "el:arche",
        "sense_id": "el:arche:absolute-origin",
        "notes": "ἀρχή — beginning, origin, first principle. In John 1:1 ἐν ἀρχῇ is a direct echo of Gen 1:1, placing the Logos at the same primordial coordinate. Both point to the same zero-point."
      },
      "constraints": ["absolute-temporal-or-ontological-context"],
      "tolerance": null
    }
  ]
}
