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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000098",
  "slug": "bell",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/bell/",
  "canonical_name": "Bell",
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    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "SYMBOL"
  ],
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    "CULTURAL_PRACTICES"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
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    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000255",
      "label": "Priestly bells as actual cultic garment attachments",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "Golden bells were literal attachments on Aaron's robe whose sound accompanied his movement in priestly ministry.",
      "not_always": "The text specifies function and sound but does not interpret the bell itself as a theological symbol of sweetness or praise.",
      "scope_note": "The text specifies function and sound but does not interpret the bell itself as a theological symbol of sweetness or praise.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000255",
          "statement": "Exodus explicitly prescribes the bells and states that their sound must be heard when Aaron enters and leaves the Holy Place; this is cultic function, not a free-standing symbolic code.",
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            "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION"
          ],
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          "evidence_grade": 1,
          "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION",
          "status": "REQUIRES_RECLASSIFICATION",
          "public_wording_class": "CATEGORY_OR_RECLASSIFICATION_NOTICE",
          "scope_limitation": "The text specifies function and sound but does not interpret the bell itself as a theological symbol of sweetness or praise.",
          "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-000439",
              "osis_start": "Exod.28.33",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Exodus 28:33-35",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000103",
              "author_editor": "NET Bible / Bible.org / Cambridge commentary contributors",
              "title": "Contextual and cultural controls for TSP-S3 Batch 5",
              "publication_data": "Online exegetical, lexical, and historical notes accessed 2026-09-20",
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              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
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                "SCHOLARLY_ARGUMENT"
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          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000256",
      "label": "Fixed bell = sweet sound/tinkling symbolism",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The legacy list assigns a sweet/tinkling sound as the symbolic meaning of bell.",
      "not_always": "Sound is part of the bell's literal function; symbolic meaning requires further textual interpretation that is not supplied.",
      "scope_note": "Sound is part of the bell's literal function; symbolic meaning requires further textual interpretation that is not supplied.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000256",
          "statement": "The bell's sound is an explicit functional feature of the priestly garment, but Scripture does not assign sweet sound or tinkling as an independent theological symbolism.",
          "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": "Sound is part of the bell's literal function; symbolic meaning requires further textual interpretation that is not supplied.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "Cultic garment function explains the passage without positing an additional symbolic code.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000440",
              "osis_start": "Exod.28.35",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Exodus 28:35",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000103",
              "author_editor": "NET Bible / Bible.org / Cambridge commentary contributors",
              "title": "Contextual and cultural controls for TSP-S3 Batch 5",
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              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
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                "HISTORICAL_BACKGROUND",
                "SCHOLARLY_ARGUMENT"
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          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
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    }
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  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}