Biblical Types, Symbols & Patterns
Crane
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Bird-call simile in Hezekiah’s distress
Isaiah 38:14 compares Hezekiah’s weak chirping speech to a swallow/crane-like bird call within his lament over mortal illness.
Context control: Keep the explicit simile bounded to Hezekiah’s distress.
Isaiah 38:14 explicitly uses swallow/crane bird-call imagery as a simile for Hezekiah’s distressed, weakened utterance.
Grade 1: Explicit biblical interpretationScope: The passage supports distress/lament imagery in this context, not an intrinsic crane = mourning/loneliness code.
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 agur: bird, perhaps crane/thrush — Accessed/verified 2026-09-20
Proposed crane = mourning/loneliness code
The inherited formula makes mourning and loneliness intrinsic symbolic meanings of crane imagery.
Context control: Canonical recurrence is multivalent and the species identification itself is uncertain.
Scripture does not establish the crane as a fixed symbol of mourning or loneliness; Isaiah 38 uses a distress simile, while Jeremiah 8 uses the bird for seasonal awareness.
Grade 7: Insufficient biblical evidenceScope: Mourning/distress may be described by the Isaiah simile, but loneliness is not established as the bird’s canonical meaning.
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 agur: bird, perhaps crane/thrush — Accessed/verified 2026-09-20
Lexical mappings
These are cross-tier mappings only; lexical definitions remain owned by the site’s lexical resources.
- HEBREW: עָגוּר agur — H5693
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