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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000115",
  "slug": "breast",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/breast/",
  "canonical_name": "Breast",
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    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "METAPHOR",
    "SYMBOL"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "BODY_PARTS_IDIOMS"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
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    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000298",
      "label": "Breast as actual body part and source of nursing nourishment",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "The breast is first an actual body part associated especially with nursing and maternal nourishment.",
      "not_always": "Literal anatomy and nursing remain primary; erotic, maternal, and figurative contexts must be distinguished.",
      "scope_note": "Literal anatomy and nursing remain primary; erotic, maternal, and figurative contexts must be distinguished.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000298",
          "statement": "The legacy Breast entry must first be reclassified around literal anatomy and nursing; symbolic meanings arise only in specified poetic or prophetic contexts.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "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": "Literal anatomy and nursing remain primary; erotic, maternal, and figurative contexts must be distinguished.",
          "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-000497",
              "osis_start": "Isa.66.11",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Isaiah 66:11",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
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          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000113",
              "author_editor": "Bible.org / NET Bible commentary contributors",
              "title": "Exegetical and historical controls for TSP-S3 Batch 7",
              "publication_data": "Online exegetical and historical notes accessed 2026-09-20",
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              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
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                "SCHOLARLY_ARGUMENT",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
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          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000299",
      "label": "Nourishment and maternal comfort imagery",
      "classification": "METAPHOR",
      "definition": "Nursing-breast imagery can convey nourishment, satisfaction, and maternal comfort.",
      "not_always": "The imagery is specifically maternal/nursing and should not be generalized to every occurrence of breast language.",
      "scope_note": "The imagery is specifically maternal/nursing and should not be generalized to every occurrence of breast language.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000299",
          "statement": "Isaiah 66 provides strong breast imagery for nourishment and consolation, supporting those associations in maternal contexts.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "METAPHOR"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 4,
          "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN",
          "status": "STRONGLY_SUPPORTED",
          "public_wording_class": "STRONGLY_SUPPORTED_PATTERN",
          "scope_limitation": "The imagery is specifically maternal/nursing and should not be generalized to every occurrence of breast language.",
          "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-000498",
              "osis_start": "Isa.66.11",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Isaiah 66:11-13",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000112",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: TSP-S3 Batch 7 loci, MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
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              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
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        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000300",
      "label": "Fixed breast = love/nourishment/affection code",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The legacy list compresses breast imagery into love, nourishment, and affection.",
      "not_always": "Different breast texts concern nursing, maternal consolation, erotic beauty, priestly portions, or physical anatomy.",
      "scope_note": "Different breast texts concern nursing, maternal consolation, erotic beauty, priestly portions, or physical anatomy.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000300",
          "statement": "Nourishment is strongly grounded in nursing contexts, but love and affection are not universal meanings of the breast; Song of Songs also uses breasts in erotic beauty imagery.",
          "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": "Different breast texts concern nursing, maternal consolation, erotic beauty, priestly portions, or physical anatomy.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "Context-specific maternal or erotic imagery better explains the evidence.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000499",
              "osis_start": "Song.4.5",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Song of Songs 4:5",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
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              "author_editor": null,
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  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}