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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000071",
  "slug": "arrow",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/arrow/",
  "canonical_name": "Arrow",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "IMAGE",
    "SYMBOL"
  ],
  "modules": [],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000201",
      "label": "Arrows as instruments/images of divine judgment",
      "classification": "IMAGE",
      "definition": "Arrows can function in judgment poetry as weapons by which divine calamity is pictured or executed.",
      "not_always": "The association is contextual. Arrows also occur literally and in positive similes, so the image is not a universal judgment code.",
      "scope_note": "The association is contextual. Arrows also occur literally and in positive similes, so the image is not a universal judgment code.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000201",
          "statement": "Several biblical passages use arrows as part of divine judgment imagery, so the legacy judgment association is real when controlled by context.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "IMAGE"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 4,
          "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN",
          "status": "STRONGLY_SUPPORTED",
          "public_wording_class": "CANONICAL_MOTIF",
          "scope_limitation": "The association is contextual. Arrows also occur literally and in positive similes, so the image is not a universal judgment code.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000348",
              "osis_start": "Deut.32.23",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Deuteronomy 32:23",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000349",
              "osis_start": "Ps.7.12",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Psalm 7:12-13",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000098",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: TSP-S3 Batch 3 loci, MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Passage loci verified for TSP-S3 Batch 3, 2026-09-20",
              "locator": "https://classic.net.bible.org/",
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
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                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000202",
      "label": "The legacy formula \"swift, silent judgments\"",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The additional adjectives swift and silent are not a canonical definition of arrow imagery.",
      "not_always": "Judgment imagery is supported in some passages; the adjectives swift/silent and a universal symbolic equation are not.",
      "scope_note": "Judgment imagery is supported in some passages; the adjectives swift/silent and a universal symbolic equation are not.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000202",
          "statement": "The inherited equation of arrow with \"swift, silent judgments\" is more specific than the biblical evidence warrants and should not be presented as a fixed symbolic definition.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "SYMBOL"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 7,
          "grade_basis": "G7_INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "status": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "public_wording_class": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "scope_limitation": "Judgment imagery is supported in some passages; the adjectives swift/silent and a universal symbolic equation are not.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "The legacy wording is best treated as a homiletical compression of selected judgment passages.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000348",
              "osis_start": "Deut.32.23",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Deuteronomy 32:23",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000350",
              "osis_start": "Ps.127.4",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Psalm 127:4",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000098",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: TSP-S3 Batch 3 loci, MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Passage loci verified for TSP-S3 Batch 3, 2026-09-20",
              "locator": "https://classic.net.bible.org/",
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
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                {
                  "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL",
                  "target": "https://classic.net.bible.org/"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}