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  "slug": "crane",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/crane/",
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      "label": "Bird-call simile in Hezekiah’s distress",
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      "not_always": "The precise bird identification is uncertain, and the text compares sound/utterance rather than defining the bird as mourning itself.",
      "scope_note": "Keep the explicit simile bounded to Hezekiah’s distress.",
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          "status": "ESTABLISHED",
          "public_wording_class": "SCRIPTURE_EXPLICITLY_IDENTIFIES",
          "scope_limitation": "The passage supports distress/lament imagery in this context, not an intrinsic crane = mourning/loneliness code.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000658",
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              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000161",
              "author_editor": "BibleHub lexical summary",
              "title": "Hebrew agur: bird, perhaps crane/thrush",
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000418",
      "label": "Proposed crane = mourning/loneliness code",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The inherited formula makes mourning and loneliness intrinsic symbolic meanings of crane imagery.",
      "not_always": "Jeremiah 8:7 uses the same bird terminology for seasonal/migratory timing, demonstrating a different function.",
      "scope_note": "Canonical recurrence is multivalent and the species identification itself is uncertain.",
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        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000418",
          "statement": "Scripture does not establish the crane as a fixed symbol of mourning or loneliness; Isaiah 38 uses a distress simile, while Jeremiah 8 uses the bird for seasonal awareness.",
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          "scope_limitation": "Mourning/distress may be described by the Isaiah simile, but loneliness is not established as the bird’s canonical meaning.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000161",
              "author_editor": "BibleHub lexical summary",
              "title": "Hebrew agur: bird, perhaps crane/thrush",
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      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000095",
      "language": "HEBREW",
      "lemma_unicode": "עָגוּר",
      "transliteration": "agur",
      "strongs_id": "H5693",
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      "semantic_domain_ids": []
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  "negative_guardrails": []
}