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  "slug": "chew",
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000369",
      "label": "Chewing/bringing up the cud as actual dietary classification criterion",
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      "definition": "Leviticus uses chewing or bringing up the cud as a literal zoological criterion in Israel’s clean/unclean animal regulations.",
      "not_always": "The dietary criterion does not itself authorize a spiritual allegory.",
      "scope_note": "The dietary criterion does not itself authorize a spiritual allegory.",
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          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000369",
          "statement": "CHEW must first be reclassified as literal animal/dietary language; the Hebrew terminology concerns rumination, not spiritual meditation.",
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          "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION",
          "status": "REQUIRES_RECLASSIFICATION",
          "public_wording_class": "CATEGORY_OR_RECLASSIFICATION_NOTICE",
          "scope_limitation": "The dietary criterion does not itself authorize a spiritual allegory.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000598",
              "osis_start": "Lev.11.3",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Leviticus 11:3-8",
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000599",
              "osis_start": "Deut.14.6",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Deuteronomy 14:6-8",
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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000137",
              "author_editor": "NET Bible notes",
              "title": "Leviticus 11 chewing/bringing up the cud lexical note",
              "publication_data": "Accessed/verified 2026-09-20",
              "locator": "https://classic.net.bible.org/passage.php?passage=Lev+11%3A1-17",
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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000131",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: TSP-S3 Batch 10 loci, MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
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        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000370",
      "label": "Chewing = meditation on God’s Word",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The legacy list spiritualizes chewing/rumination as meditation on Scripture.",
      "not_always": "Biblical meditation terminology is independently expressed and is not linked by inspired interpretation to chewing cud.",
      "scope_note": "Biblical meditation terminology is independently expressed and is not linked by inspired interpretation to chewing cud.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000370",
          "statement": "No biblical text interprets chewing the cud as meditation on God’s Word; the analogy is homiletically imaginable but not canonically established.",
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            "SYMBOL"
          ],
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          "evidence_grade": 7,
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          "status": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "public_wording_class": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "scope_limitation": "Biblical meditation terminology is independently expressed and is not linked by inspired interpretation to chewing cud.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "The legacy reading is an illustrative analogy imposed on the dietary practice rather than an inspired symbol.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
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            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000600",
              "osis_start": "Ps.1.2",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Psalm 1:2",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
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              "author_editor": null,
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  "negative_guardrails": []
}