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  "slug": "lebanon",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/lebanon/",
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    "IMAGE"
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  "legacy_present": true,
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      "not_always": "Poetic associations involving Lebanon or its cedars must be established passage by passage; place-name prominence is not a universal symbolic meaning.",
      "scope_note": "Poetic associations involving Lebanon or its cedars must be established passage by passage; place-name prominence is not a universal symbolic meaning.",
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          "evidence_grade": 4,
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          "scope_limitation": "Poetic associations involving Lebanon or its cedars must be established passage by passage; place-name prominence is not a universal symbolic meaning.",
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          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001131",
              "osis_start": "Ps.29.5",
              "osis_end": "Ps.29.6",
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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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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000229",
              "author_editor": "BibleHub lexical/verse reference",
              "title": "Hebrew Lebanon (Lebanon / mountain region)",
              "publication_data": "Accessed/verified 2026-09-20",
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000745",
      "label": "Lebanon/cedar imagery as contextual grandeur, beauty, height, and flourishing",
      "classification": "IMAGE",
      "definition": "Lebanon and especially its cedars can function poetically as images of grandeur, loftiness, beauty/fragrance, or flourishing.",
      "not_always": "The specific force belongs to each comparison; Lebanon itself is not everywhere equivalent to beauty, strength, or loftiness.",
      "scope_note": "The specific force belongs to each comparison; Lebanon itself is not everywhere equivalent to beauty, strength, or loftiness.",
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        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000745",
          "statement": "The legacy beauty/strength/loftiness associations have real poetic support in passages that compare flourishing, majesty, fragrance, or height with Lebanon and its cedars, but the associations remain contextual rather than an invariant Lebanon-code.",
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            "IMAGE"
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          "scope_limitation": "The specific force belongs to each comparison; Lebanon itself is not everywhere equivalent to beauty, strength, or loftiness.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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            "OTHER"
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000577",
              "osis_start": "Ps.92.12",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Psalm 92:12",
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001132",
              "osis_start": "Hos.14.5",
              "osis_end": "Hos.14.7",
              "display_label": "Hosea 14:5–7",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001133",
              "osis_start": "Song.4.11",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Song of Songs 4:11",
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            }
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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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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000229",
              "author_editor": "BibleHub lexical/verse reference",
              "title": "Hebrew Lebanon (Lebanon / mountain region)",
              "publication_data": "Accessed/verified 2026-09-20",
              "locator": "https://biblehub.com/hebrew/3844.htm",
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  "lexeme_mappings": [
    {
      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000177",
      "language": "HEBREW",
      "lemma_unicode": "לְבָנוֹן",
      "transliteration": "levanon",
      "strongs_id": "H3844",
      "owner_tier": "TSP_MAPPING_ONLY",
      "semantic_domain_ids": []
    }
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  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}