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  "slug": "dust",
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      "not_always": "Dust also has numerous literal and other figurative uses.",
      "scope_note": "The legacy “man’s frailty” association is strongly supported when tied to creation and mortality contexts.",
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          "statement": "Dust is a recurrent canonical motif for human creatureliness, frailty, and mortality.",
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          "scope_limitation": "The legacy “man’s frailty” association is strongly supported when tied to creation and mortality contexts.",
          "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-000729",
              "osis_start": "Gen.3.19",
              "osis_end": null,
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              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Psalm 103:14",
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              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 1",
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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000179",
              "author_editor": "BibleHub lexical summary",
              "title": "Hebrew aphar: dust / earth / loose soil",
              "publication_data": "Accessed/verified 2026-09-20",
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000464",
      "label": "Dust/ashes as posture or language of humiliation, mourning, and creaturely lowliness",
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      "not_always": "Not every dust reference expresses humiliation or contempt.",
      "scope_note": "Retain humiliation/lowliness as a recurrent contextual association; “contempt” is not an invariant dust meaning.",
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          "statement": "Dust is strongly associated in several texts with humiliation, mourning, repentance, or lowliness, but not with a fixed “contempt” code.",
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          "scope_limitation": "Retain humiliation/lowliness as a recurrent contextual association; “contempt” is not an invariant dust meaning.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000731",
              "osis_start": "Gen.18.27",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Genesis 18:27",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000356",
              "osis_start": "Job.42.6",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Job 42:6",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000001",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000179",
              "author_editor": "BibleHub lexical summary",
              "title": "Hebrew aphar: dust / earth / loose soil",
              "publication_data": "Accessed/verified 2026-09-20",
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        }
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      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000119",
      "language": "HEBREW",
      "lemma_unicode": "עָפָר",
      "transliteration": "aphar",
      "strongs_id": "H6083",
      "owner_tier": "TSP_MAPPING_ONLY",
      "semantic_domain_ids": []
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  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}