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  "slug": "bind",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/bind/",
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000260",
      "label": "Binding as restraint, fastening, imprisonment, or imposed restriction",
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      "definition": "Biblical binding language can denote literal fastening/imprisonment and can extend figuratively to restraint or authoritative restriction.",
      "not_always": "The precise force of binding depends on context; it is not a synonym for conquest in every passage.",
      "scope_note": "The precise force of binding depends on context; it is not a synonym for conquest in every passage.",
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        {
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          "statement": "The recurrent semantic core is restraint/constraint, with applications ranging from literal bonds to the binding of Satan and authoritative bind/loose sayings.",
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          "evidence_grade": 4,
          "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN",
          "status": "STRONGLY_SUPPORTED",
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          "scope_limitation": "The precise force of binding depends on context; it is not a synonym for conquest in every passage.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
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            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000445",
              "osis_start": "Rev.20.2",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Revelation 20:2-3",
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            },
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000446",
              "osis_start": "Matt.16.19",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Matthew 16:19; 18:18",
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            }
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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000102",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: TSP-S3 Batch 5 loci, MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Passage loci verified for TSP-S3 Batch 5, 2026-09-20",
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              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
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                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
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            {
              "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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        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000261",
      "label": "Fixed bind = conquering/subduing another symbolism",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The legacy list reduces binding to conquering or subduing another.",
      "not_always": "Conquest/subjugation may be an effect in some passages, but restraint/constraint is the broader contextual category.",
      "scope_note": "Conquest/subjugation may be an effect in some passages, but restraint/constraint is the broader contextual category.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000261",
          "statement": "Some binding actions do subdue or restrain an opponent, but the biblical vocabulary also covers ordinary fastening, imprisonment, obligation, and authoritative restriction, so the proposed fixed symbolic meaning is too narrow.",
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            "SYMBOL"
          ],
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          "evidence_grade": 7,
          "grade_basis": "G7_INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "status": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "public_wording_class": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "scope_limitation": "Conquest/subjugation may be an effect in some passages, but restraint/constraint is the broader contextual category.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "Literal or figurative restraint/constraint better accounts for the lexical and contextual range.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000447",
              "osis_start": "Mark.5.3",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Mark 5:3-4",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000102",
              "author_editor": null,
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              "publication_data": "Passage loci verified for TSP-S3 Batch 5, 2026-09-20",
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        }
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  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}