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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000235",
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      "definition": "The basic biblical referent of barrenness is inability to conceive or produce offspring.",
      "not_always": "Literal infertility is not itself evidence of moral or spiritual unfruitfulness.",
      "scope_note": "Literal infertility is not itself evidence of moral or spiritual unfruitfulness.",
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          "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION",
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          "scope_limitation": "Literal infertility is not itself evidence of moral or spiritual unfruitfulness.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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              "osis_end": null,
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000418",
              "osis_start": "Luke.1.7",
              "osis_end": null,
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000236",
      "label": "Divinely reversed barrenness as recurring narrative pattern",
      "classification": "NARRATIVE_PATTERN_OR_TYPE_SCENE",
      "definition": "Scripture repeatedly presents barren women whose inability is reversed by divine action in the birth of significant covenant figures.",
      "not_always": "This is a narrative pattern, not a warrant to make every barren woman a formal type or to infer divine curse in every case.",
      "scope_note": "This is a narrative pattern, not a warrant to make every barren woman a formal type or to infer divine curse in every case.",
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        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000236",
          "statement": "Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, Manoah's wife, Hannah, and Elizabeth form a strong recurring narrative pattern of human inability answered by divine provision.",
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          "evidence_grade": 4,
          "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN",
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          "public_wording_class": "STRONGLY_SUPPORTED_PATTERN",
          "scope_limitation": "This is a narrative pattern, not a warrant to make every barren woman a formal type or to infer divine curse in every case.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000407",
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              "display_label": "Genesis 25:21",
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000408",
              "osis_start": "1Sam.1.5",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "1 Samuel 1:5-20",
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            },
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000409",
              "osis_start": "Luke.1.7",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Luke 1:7, 13, 24",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
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              "author_editor": null,
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              "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",
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  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}