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  "slug": "apple",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/apple/",
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      "label": "Tappuach/apple imagery of sweetness, fragrance, shade, and desirability in Song of Songs",
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      "definition": "The Song of Songs uses tappuach fruit/tree imagery for sweetness, shade, fragrance, and desirability. These are poetic sensory comparisons rather than an inspired dictionary definition of a symbol.",
      "not_always": "The exact botanical identification of Hebrew tappuach is debated, and the sensory associations belong to the poetic contexts in which the fruit/tree appears.",
      "scope_note": "The exact botanical identification of Hebrew tappuach is debated, and the sensory associations belong to the poetic contexts in which the fruit/tree appears.",
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        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000191",
          "statement": "The Song of Songs uses tappuach fruit/tree imagery for sweetness, shade, fragrance, and desirability. These are poetic sensory comparisons rather than an inspired dictionary definition of a symbol.",
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          "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN",
          "status": "REQUIRES_RECLASSIFICATION",
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          "scope_limitation": "The exact botanical identification of Hebrew tappuach is debated, and the sensory associations belong to the poetic contexts in which the fruit/tree appears.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "The legacy entry compresses literal sensory properties and poetic comparisons into a single symbolic label.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000324",
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000325",
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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000094",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: TSP-S3 Batch 2 loci, MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Passage loci verified for TSP-S3 Batch 2, 2026-09-20",
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000192",
      "label": "Apple as a fixed symbol of fragrance, beauty, and sweetness",
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      "not_always": "Poetic sensory associations in Song of Songs are valid; converting them into a universal symbol is not.",
      "scope_note": "Poetic sensory associations in Song of Songs are valid; converting them into a universal symbol is not.",
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        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000192",
          "statement": "Scripture does not assign tappuach/apple a fixed symbolic meaning of fragrance, beauty, and sweetness across its occurrences; those qualities arise from particular poetic comparisons.",
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          "grade_basis": "G7_INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "status": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "public_wording_class": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "scope_limitation": "Poetic sensory associations in Song of Songs are valid; converting them into a universal symbol is not.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "The legacy line is best treated as a compressed note on sensory imagery in Song of Songs.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000326",
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              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000327",
              "osis_start": "Joel.1.12",
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              "display_label": "Joel 1:12",
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            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000094",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: TSP-S3 Batch 2 loci, MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Passage loci verified for TSP-S3 Batch 2, 2026-09-20",
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      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000078",
      "language": "HEBREW",
      "lemma_unicode": "תַּפּוּחַ",
      "transliteration": "tappuach",
      "strongs_id": null,
      "owner_tier": "TSP_MAPPING_ONLY",
      "semantic_domain_ids": []
    }
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  "negative_guardrails": []
}