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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000081",
  "slug": "baldness",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/baldness/",
  "canonical_name": "Baldness",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "SYMBOLIC_ACTION",
    "SYMBOL"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "CULTURAL_PRACTICES"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
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    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000222",
      "label": "Baldness or head-shaving as mourning/shame imagery",
      "classification": "SYMBOLIC_ACTION",
      "definition": "Intentional baldness or shaving can function as an enacted cultural sign of mourning, shame, calamity, or exile.",
      "not_always": "The association applies where the text or culture marks baldness/shaving as mourning or shame; natural baldness itself is not morally negative.",
      "scope_note": "The association applies where the text or culture marks baldness/shaving as mourning or shame; natural baldness itself is not morally negative.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000222",
          "statement": "Prophetic texts recurrently use baldness or head-shaving as a mourning/shame action, so this association is strongly supported; the legacy weakness/humility wording does not state the primary biblical function.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "SYMBOLIC_ACTION"
          ],
          "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 applies where the text or culture marks baldness/shaving as mourning or shame; natural baldness itself is not morally negative.",
          "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-000380",
              "osis_start": "Mic.1.16",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Micah 1:16",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000381",
              "osis_start": "Amos.8.10",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Amos 8:10",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000382",
              "osis_start": "Isa.3.24",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Isaiah 3:24",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000101",
              "author_editor": "NET Bible translators and Bible.org conservative commentary contributors",
              "title": "NET Bible / Bible.org contextual controls for TSP-S3 Batch 4",
              "publication_data": "Online lexical, cultural, and contextual notes accessed 2026-09-20",
              "locator": "https://bible.org/",
              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT",
                "HISTORICAL_BACKGROUND",
                "SCHOLARLY_ARGUMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": [
                {
                  "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL",
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                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000100",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: TSP-S3 Batch 4 loci, MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Passage loci verified for TSP-S3 Batch 4, 2026-09-20",
              "locator": "https://classic.net.bible.org/",
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
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                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
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                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000223",
      "label": "Weakness and humility as fixed symbolic meaning",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The legacy list proposes that baldness symbolizes weakness and humility.",
      "not_always": "Natural baldness can be explicitly clean and morally neutral, while shaved baldness may mark mourning or judgment.",
      "scope_note": "Natural baldness can be explicitly clean and morally neutral, while shaved baldness may mark mourning or judgment.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000223",
          "statement": "Scripture does not establish baldness as a fixed symbol of weakness or humility. The more directly attested associations are literal baldness and culturally enacted mourning, shame, or judgment.",
          "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": "Natural baldness can be explicitly clean and morally neutral, while shaved baldness may mark mourning or judgment.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "Mourning/shame/judgment is the better-attested contextual explanation.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000383",
              "osis_start": "Lev.13.40",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Leviticus 13:40",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000380",
              "osis_start": "Mic.1.16",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Micah 1:16",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000100",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: TSP-S3 Batch 4 loci, MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Passage loci verified for TSP-S3 Batch 4, 2026-09-20",
              "locator": "https://classic.net.bible.org/",
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
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                {
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                  "target": "https://classic.net.bible.org/"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}