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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000247",
  "slug": "fruit",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/fruit/",
  "canonical_name": "Fruit",
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    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "SYMBOL"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "PLANTS_AGRICULTURE"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000163",
      "label": "Jesus explicitly uses fruit as a metaphor for observable outcomes by which false prophets are recognized.",
      "classification": "METAPHOR",
      "definition": "Jesus explicitly uses fruit as a metaphor for observable outcomes by which false prophets are recognized.",
      "not_always": "Fruit can symbolize conduct, character, converts, produce, or results in different contexts; Matthew 7 concerns observable outcomes revealing the tree.",
      "scope_note": "Fruit can symbolize conduct, character, converts, produce, or results in different contexts; Matthew 7 concerns observable outcomes revealing the tree.",
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        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000163",
          "statement": "Jesus explicitly uses fruit as a metaphor for observable outcomes by which false prophets are recognized.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
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          "evidence_grade": 1,
          "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION",
          "status": "ESTABLISHED",
          "public_wording_class": "SCRIPTURE_EXPLICITLY_IDENTIFIES",
          "scope_limitation": "Fruit can symbolize conduct, character, converts, produce, or results in different contexts; Matthew 7 concerns observable outcomes revealing the tree.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "Full legacy wording remains subject to TSP-S3 unless the S2 statement exactly exhausts it.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "SANCTIFICATION"
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            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000265",
              "osis_start": "Matt.7.16",
              "osis_end": "Matt.7.20",
              "display_label": "Matthew 7:16-20",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000091",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: S2 high-certainty anchor loci, MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S2 high-certainty anchor corpus, 2026-09-20",
              "locator": "https://classic.net.bible.org/",
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
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                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
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        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000580",
      "label": "Fruit as literal agricultural produce",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "Fruit language frequently denotes actual produce borne by plants and trees.",
      "not_always": "Literal agricultural fruit remains literal unless context activates metaphor.",
      "scope_note": "Literal agricultural fruit remains literal unless context activates metaphor.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000580",
          "statement": "Biblical fruit language frequently denotes actual agricultural produce and is not intrinsically symbolic.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION"
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          "evidence_grade": 4,
          "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN",
          "status": "REQUIRES_RECLASSIFICATION",
          "public_wording_class": "CATEGORY_OR_RECLASSIFICATION_NOTICE",
          "scope_limitation": "Literal agricultural fruit remains literal unless context activates metaphor.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
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            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000898",
              "osis_start": "Gen.1.11",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Genesis 1:11",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000899",
              "osis_start": "Lev.19.23",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Leviticus 19:23",
              "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",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 1",
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        }
      ]
    },
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000581",
      "label": "Fruit as recurrent metaphor for outcomes or results",
      "classification": "METAPHOR",
      "definition": "Fruit recurrently functions as a metaphor for observable results, conduct, character, or produced effects.",
      "not_always": "The specific result varies by passage; fruit is not one fixed code for increase, converts, virtues, or any single outcome.",
      "scope_note": "The specific result varies by passage; fruit is not one fixed code for increase, converts, virtues, or any single outcome.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000581",
          "statement": "Across the canon, fruit can metaphorically denote produced outcomes or results—including conduct and character—so “increase” can be related to fruitfulness in context but is not the term’s invariant symbolic meaning.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "METAPHOR"
          ],
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          "evidence_grade": 4,
          "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN",
          "status": "STRONGLY_SUPPORTED",
          "public_wording_class": "CANONICAL_MOTIF",
          "scope_limitation": "The specific result varies by passage; fruit is not one fixed code for increase, converts, virtues, or any single outcome.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "SANCTIFICATION"
          ],
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            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000900",
              "osis_start": "Matt.7.16",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Matthew 7:16",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000901",
              "osis_start": "Gal.5.22",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Galatians 5:22",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000902",
              "osis_start": "Phil.1.11",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Philippians 1:11",
              "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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        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000582",
      "label": "Fruit is not a fixed code for increase or multiplication",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The inherited equation fruit = increase/multiplication is too narrow for the range of literal and metaphorical fruit uses.",
      "not_always": "Fruit may denote produce, offspring, conduct, character, consequences, or other results according to context.",
      "scope_note": "Fruit may denote produce, offspring, conduct, character, consequences, or other results according to context.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000582",
          "statement": "Scripture does not establish “fruit” as a fixed universal symbol meaning only increase or multiplication; biblical fruit imagery is multivalent and context controls the referent.",
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            "SYMBOL"
          ],
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          "evidence_grade": 7,
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          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "SANCTIFICATION"
          ],
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000900",
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            }
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              "author_editor": null,
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                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
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            }
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  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}