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      "not_always": "This is a specific messianic scene; it does not establish a general personality-code for donkeys.",
      "scope_note": "This is a specific messianic scene; it does not establish a general personality-code for donkeys.",
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          "statement": "The donkey/colt participates in a very strongly supported prophetic image of the Messiah's humble royal coming.",
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          "evidence_grade": 2,
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          "scope_limitation": "This is a specific messianic scene; it does not establish a general personality-code for donkeys.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000363",
              "osis_start": "Zech.9.9",
              "osis_end": null,
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000364",
              "osis_start": "Matt.21.4",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Matthew 21:4-5",
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              "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",
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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000099",
              "author_editor": "NET Bible translators and conservative Bible.org commentary sources",
              "title": "NET Bible and conservative contextual controls for TSP-S3 Batch 3",
              "publication_data": "Online lexical, cultural, and contextual notes, accessed 2026-09-20",
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              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
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    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000211",
      "label": "Patience, endurance, strength, or stubbornness as a fixed donkey code",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The legacy trait-list combines occasional features and later cultural stereotypes without a controlling biblical interpretation.",
      "not_always": "Individual texts may emphasize strength, burden-bearing, royal use, humility, or other features, but no single trait-list governs donkey imagery.",
      "scope_note": "Individual texts may emphasize strength, burden-bearing, royal use, humility, or other features, but no single trait-list governs donkey imagery.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000211",
          "statement": "The inherited equation of donkey with patience, endurance, strength, or stubbornness is insufficiently supported as a fixed biblical symbolic meaning.",
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            "SYMBOL"
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          "evidence_grade": 7,
          "grade_basis": "G7_INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
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          "scope_limitation": "Individual texts may emphasize strength, burden-bearing, royal use, humility, or other features, but no single trait-list governs donkey imagery.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "The legacy list appears to generalize observed animal traits into a symbolic dictionary rather than derive one meaning from the biblical contexts.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000365",
              "osis_start": "Gen.49.14",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Genesis 49:14",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000363",
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              "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",
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  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}