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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000069",
  "slug": "armies-horses-horsemen-or-locusts",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/armies-horses-horsemen-or-locusts/",
  "canonical_name": "Armies (Horses, Horsemen or Locusts)",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "APOCALYPTIC_SYMBOL",
    "DREAM_OR_VISION_SYMBOL",
    "SYMBOL"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "ANGELIC_HEAVENLY_BEINGS",
    "APOCALYPTIC"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000199",
      "label": "Context-specific army imagery can represent supernatural/heavenly or demonic destructive forces",
      "classification": "APOCALYPTIC_SYMBOL",
      "definition": "Some biblical visionary passages use horses, chariots, locust-like hosts, or armies for supernatural agents. Second Kings 6 depicts a heavenly fiery host, while Revelation 9 presents abyssal locust-horse imagery under the angel of the abyss. This supports context-specific spiritual-force imagery, not a single lexical code.",
      "not_always": "Horses, horsemen, armies, and locusts are frequently literal elsewhere. Supernatural identification must be established from the individual narrative or vision.",
      "scope_note": "Horses, horsemen, armies, and locusts are frequently literal elsewhere. Supernatural identification must be established from the individual narrative or vision.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000199",
          "statement": "Some biblical visionary passages use horses, chariots, locust-like hosts, or armies for supernatural agents. Second Kings 6 depicts a heavenly fiery host, while Revelation 9 presents abyssal locust-horse imagery under the angel of the abyss. This supports context-specific spiritual-force imagery, not a single lexical code.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "APOCALYPTIC_SYMBOL",
            "DREAM_OR_VISION_SYMBOL"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 4,
          "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN",
          "status": "STRONGLY_SUPPORTED",
          "public_wording_class": "STRONGLY_SUPPORTED_PATTERN",
          "scope_limitation": "Horses, horsemen, armies, and locusts are frequently literal elsewhere. Supernatural identification must be established from the individual narrative or vision.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "The legacy entry compresses multiple distinct literal and visionary motifs into one generalized meaning.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "ESCHATOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000342",
              "osis_start": "2Kgs.6.17",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "2 Kings 6:17",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000343",
              "osis_start": "Rev.9.3",
              "osis_end": "Rev.9.11",
              "display_label": "Revelation 9:3-11",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000344",
              "osis_start": "Rev.9.16",
              "osis_end": "Rev.9.19",
              "display_label": "Revelation 9:16-19",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "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",
              "locator": "https://classic.net.bible.org/",
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": [
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                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000200",
      "label": "Horses, horsemen, armies, or locusts as a fixed symbol of spiritual powers and strength, good or evil",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The inherited umbrella equation is too broad. These images can be literal military or agricultural realities, metaphors for invading armies, or supernatural visionary agents; the text must determine the sense occurrence by occurrence.",
      "not_always": "The spiritual-force reading is valid only where the passage itself places the imagery in a supernatural or visionary setting.",
      "scope_note": "The spiritual-force reading is valid only where the passage itself places the imagery in a supernatural or visionary setting.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000200",
          "statement": "The inherited umbrella equation is too broad. These images can be literal military or agricultural realities, metaphors for invading armies, or supernatural visionary agents; the text must determine the sense occurrence by occurrence.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "SYMBOL"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 7,
          "grade_basis": "G7_INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "status": "CONTRADICTED_BY_CONTEXT",
          "public_wording_class": "CONTRADICTED_BY_CONTEXT",
          "scope_limitation": "The spiritual-force reading is valid only where the passage itself places the imagery in a supernatural or visionary setting.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "Literal and metaphorical military/agricultural uses account for many occurrences without invoking spiritual powers.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "ESCHATOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000345",
              "osis_start": "Rev.9.3",
              "osis_end": "Rev.9.11",
              "display_label": "Revelation 9:3-11",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000346",
              "osis_start": "Exod.14.9",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Exodus 14:9",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000347",
              "osis_start": "Joel.1.4",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Joel 1:4",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "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",
              "locator": "https://classic.net.bible.org/",
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
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                  "target": "https://classic.net.bible.org/"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}