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      "not_always": "The passage concerns literal remembered food and disordered craving; the foods are not thereby assigned an intrinsic symbolic meaning.",
      "scope_note": "The passage concerns literal remembered food and disordered craving; the foods are not thereby assigned an intrinsic symbolic meaning.",
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          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000230",
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              "title": "Hebrew chatsir in Numbers 11:5 (leeks/greens)",
              "publication_data": "Accessed/verified 2026-09-20",
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000747",
      "label": "World-produce symbolism lacks canonical establishment",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The proposal that leeks, garlic, and onions symbolize “world produce” is not established by inspired interpretation or canonical recurrence.",
      "not_always": "Egypt may carry theological significance in other texts, but that significance cannot be transferred automatically to every Egyptian food item.",
      "scope_note": "Egypt may carry theological significance in other texts, but that significance cannot be transferred automatically to every Egyptian food item.",
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          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000747",
          "statement": "Scripture does not identify leeks, garlic, or onions as symbols of worldly produce; Numbers 11 presents them as literal foods remembered from Egypt within Israel’s complaint.",
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          "scope_limitation": "Egypt may carry theological significance in other texts, but that significance cannot be transferred automatically to every Egyptian food item.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "The foods are concrete remembered produce that sharpen the narrative contrast between craving and God’s wilderness provision.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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              "title": "Hebrew chatsir in Numbers 11:5 (leeks/greens)",
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      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000178",
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      "lemma_unicode": "חָצִיר",
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      "strongs_id": "H2682",
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