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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000300",
  "slug": "jaws",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/jaws/",
  "canonical_name": "Jaws",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "SYMBOL"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "BODY_PARTS_IDIOMS"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000704",
      "label": "Jaw/jawbone as literal anatomy and weapon",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "Hebrew lechi denotes jaw/cheek/jawbone; Judges 15 uses a donkey jawbone as a literal weapon in Samson’s deliverance.",
      "not_always": "Literal anatomy and narrative instrumentality must be established before any figurative claim is considered.",
      "scope_note": "Literal anatomy and narrative instrumentality must be established before any figurative claim is considered.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000704",
          "statement": "The Jaws entry must first be reclassified as literal anatomy/jawbone: Judges 15 records Samson using an actual donkey jawbone as a weapon; the object’s narrative use is not itself an inspired symbolic definition of strength or power.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION"
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          "evidence_grade": 1,
          "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION",
          "status": "REQUIRES_RECLASSIFICATION",
          "public_wording_class": "CATEGORY_OR_RECLASSIFICATION_NOTICE",
          "scope_limitation": "Literal anatomy and narrative instrumentality must be established before any figurative claim is considered.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001074",
              "osis_start": "Judg.15.15",
              "osis_end": "Judg.15.17",
              "display_label": "Judges 15:15–17",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "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",
              "locator": null,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            },
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000216",
              "author_editor": "BibleHub lexical summary",
              "title": "Hebrew lechi: jaw / cheek / jawbone",
              "publication_data": "Accessed/verified 2026-09-20",
              "locator": "https://biblehub.com/hebrew/3895.htm",
              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
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                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
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                }
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        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000705",
      "label": "No fixed jaws = strength/power code",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "Biblical jaw/cheek imagery is multivalent—weapon, vulnerability/humiliation, beauty, and controlled-animal imagery—so the legacy strength/power equation is not a fixed biblical symbol.",
      "not_always": "Any figurative use must be stated passage by passage; ordinary anatomy or weapon use is not automatically symbolic.",
      "scope_note": "Any figurative use must be stated passage by passage; ordinary anatomy or weapon use is not automatically symbolic.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000705",
          "statement": "Scripture does not establish jaws or jawbone as a fixed symbol of strength or power: contexts range from Samson’s literal weapon to hooks in a ruler’s jaws and poetic cheek imagery, demonstrating contextual multivalence.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "SYMBOL"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 7,
          "grade_basis": "G7_INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "status": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "public_wording_class": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "scope_limitation": "Any figurative use must be stated passage by passage; ordinary anatomy or weapon use is not automatically symbolic.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "The image’s force comes from the local action—weapon, humiliation, subjugation, beauty, or anatomy—rather than an intrinsic power code.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
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            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001074",
              "osis_start": "Judg.15.15",
              "osis_end": "Judg.15.17",
              "display_label": "Judges 15:15–17",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001075",
              "osis_start": "Ezek.29.4",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Ezekiel 29:4",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001076",
              "osis_start": "Song.1.10",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Song of Songs 1:10",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "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",
              "locator": null,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
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              "locator_targets": []
            },
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000216",
              "author_editor": "BibleHub lexical summary",
              "title": "Hebrew lechi: jaw / cheek / jawbone",
              "publication_data": "Accessed/verified 2026-09-20",
              "locator": "https://biblehub.com/hebrew/3895.htm",
              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
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        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [
    {
      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000164",
      "language": "HEBREW",
      "lemma_unicode": "לְחִי",
      "transliteration": "lechi",
      "strongs_id": "H3895",
      "owner_tier": "TSP_MAPPING_ONLY",
      "semantic_domain_ids": []
    }
  ],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}