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          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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              "author_editor": "BibleHub lexical summary",
              "title": "Greek smaragdinos / smaragdos: emerald",
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000488",
      "label": "Proposed emerald = glories of God and his saints code",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
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      "not_always": "Revelation places emerald imagery in both a divine-throne setting and the city-foundation list without interpreting the gem itself as God’s glory or the saints’ glory.",
      "scope_note": "Use the stone as visual/precious imagery unless the passage itself interprets it.",
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          "scope_limitation": "Use the stone as visual/precious imagery unless the passage itself interprets it.",
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          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000187",
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              "title": "Greek smaragdinos / smaragdos: emerald",
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      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000129",
      "language": "GREEK",
      "lemma_unicode": "σμαράγδινος",
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      "strongs_id": "G4664",
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  "negative_guardrails": []
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