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  "modules": [
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  ],
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  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
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      "definition": "Cumin is an actual cultivated spice crop. Isaiah 28 uses its sowing and gentle threshing within a farming illustration; Matthew 23 mentions tithing cumin.",
      "not_always": "The crop can participate in rhetorical contrasts without acquiring an intrinsic symbolic meaning.",
      "scope_note": "Literal agricultural referent precedes any proposed symbolism.",
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          "statement": "The legacy Cummin entry should first be reclassified as an actual cultivated spice crop used in Isaiah’s farming illustration and Jesus’ tithing critique.",
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          "status": "REQUIRES_RECLASSIFICATION",
          "public_wording_class": "CATEGORY_OR_RECLASSIFICATION_NOTICE",
          "scope_limitation": "The passages do not treat the seed itself as a theological life-principle.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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          ],
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              "osis_start": "Isa.28.23",
              "osis_end": "Isa.28.29",
              "display_label": "Isaiah 28:23–29",
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              "osis_start": "Matt.23.23",
              "osis_end": null,
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            }
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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000165",
              "author_editor": "BibleHub lexical summary",
              "title": "Hebrew kammon and Greek kuminon: cumin",
              "publication_data": "Accessed/verified 2026-09-20",
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000426",
      "label": "Proposed cumin = smallness/seed-life code",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The inherited formula assigns “smallness” and “seed life” as intrinsic symbolic meanings of cumin.",
      "not_always": "Matthew 23 can rhetorically contrast detailed spice tithing with weightier matters, but the text does not interpret cumin itself as smallness; Isaiah 28 emphasizes crop-specific husbandry.",
      "scope_note": "Reject codebook meaning while retaining contextual rhetorical force.",
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        {
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          "statement": "Scripture does not establish cumin as a fixed symbol of smallness or “seed life.”",
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          "public_wording_class": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "scope_limitation": "A sermon analogy based on small seeds is not equivalent to canonical symbolic meaning.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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              "osis_end": null,
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              "osis_end": "Isa.28.29",
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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000001",
              "author_editor": null,
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              "title": "Hebrew kammon and Greek kuminon: cumin",
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      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000100",
      "language": "HEBREW",
      "lemma_unicode": "כַּמֹּן",
      "transliteration": "kammon",
      "strongs_id": "H3646",
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      "semantic_domain_ids": []
    },
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      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000101",
      "language": "GREEK",
      "lemma_unicode": "κύμινον",
      "transliteration": "kuminon",
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  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}