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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000099",
  "slug": "belly",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/belly/",
  "canonical_name": "Belly",
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    "METAPHOR",
    "SYMBOL"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "BODY_PARTS_IDIOMS"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000257",
      "label": "Belly/koilia as idiom for appetite or bodily desire",
      "classification": "METAPHOR",
      "definition": "Greek koilia can literally denote belly/stomach or womb and can metaphorically stand for appetite or bodily desire in context.",
      "not_always": "The same lexical item can denote womb, stomach, or inner being elsewhere; appetite is contextual rather than universal.",
      "scope_note": "The same lexical item can denote womb, stomach, or inner being elsewhere; appetite is contextual rather than universal.",
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        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000257",
          "statement": "Philippians 3:19 and Romans 16:18 use koilia in relation to self-serving appetite/desire, establishing a real body-part idiom broader than literal anatomy.",
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          "scope_limitation": "The same lexical item can denote womb, stomach, or inner being elsewhere; appetite is contextual rather than universal.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000441",
              "osis_start": "Phil.3.19",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Philippians 3:19",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000442",
              "osis_start": "Rom.16.18",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Romans 16:18",
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            }
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    },
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000258",
      "label": "Belly/koilia as inner-being language",
      "classification": "METAPHOR",
      "definition": "Koilia can also be used for the inner part of a person rather than only the physical stomach.",
      "not_always": "John 7:39 explicitly identifies the living-water referent as the Spirit; this does not make koilia itself a fixed symbol of the Spirit or of emotion.",
      "scope_note": "John 7:39 explicitly identifies the living-water referent as the Spirit; this does not make koilia itself a fixed symbol of the Spirit or of emotion.",
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        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000258",
          "statement": "John 7:38 uses koilia for the believer's inner being as the source-image for rivers of living water, showing that the body-part term has a broader idiomatic range.",
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            "METAPHOR"
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          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
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          ],
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            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000443",
              "osis_start": "John.7.38",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "John 7:38-39",
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000259",
      "label": "Fixed belly = emotions, love and hate symbolism",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The legacy list assigns emotions, love, and hate as the meaning of belly.",
      "not_always": "Emotion language may attach to other inner-body idioms, but this legacy reduction does not fit the full lexical and contextual evidence.",
      "scope_note": "Emotion language may attach to other inner-body idioms, but this legacy reduction does not fit the full lexical and contextual evidence.",
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        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000259",
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            "SYMBOL"
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          "evidence_grade": 7,
          "grade_basis": "G7_INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
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          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "The word has a broad literal/idiomatic semantic range; context determines the sense.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000444",
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              "osis_end": null,
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              "osis_end": null,
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  "negative_guardrails": []
}