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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000328",
  "slug": "lips",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/lips/",
  "canonical_name": "Lips",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "METAPHOR",
    "SYMBOL"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "BODY_PARTS_IDIOMS"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000766",
      "label": "Lips as recurrent speech-act metonym",
      "classification": "METAPHOR",
      "definition": "Biblical lip language can stand for speech, confession, praise, truth, or deceit according to the utterance in context.",
      "not_always": "The speech-act value is context-governed; lips can refer literally to anatomy or to different kinds of speech, not specifically testimony in every passage.",
      "scope_note": "The speech-act value is context-governed; lips can refer literally to anatomy or to different kinds of speech, not specifically testimony in every passage.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000766",
          "statement": "Biblical “lips” recurrently function metonymically for spoken utterance; Hebrews 13:15 explicitly speaks of the “fruit of lips” that acknowledge/confess God’s name, strongly supporting a speech/testimony association without making testimony the word’s fixed meaning.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "METAPHOR"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 4,
          "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN",
          "status": "STRONGLY_SUPPORTED",
          "public_wording_class": "CANONICAL_MOTIF",
          "scope_limitation": "The speech-act value is context-governed; lips can refer literally to anatomy or to different kinds of speech, not specifically testimony in every passage.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "SANCTIFICATION"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001162",
              "osis_start": "Heb.13.15",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Hebrews 13:15",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001163",
              "osis_start": "Matt.15.8",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Matthew 15:8",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001164",
              "osis_start": "1Pet.3.10",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "1 Peter 3:10",
              "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"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            },
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000239",
              "author_editor": "BibleHub lexical/verse reference",
              "title": "Greek cheilos (lip / speaking mouth)",
              "publication_data": "Accessed/verified 2026-09-20",
              "locator": "https://biblehub.com/greek/5491.htm",
              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": [
                {
                  "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL",
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                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000767",
      "label": "Fixed lips-equals-testimony code rejected",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The legacy equation “lips = testimony” is too narrow to function as a universal symbolic definition.",
      "not_always": "Use “lips” as anatomy or speech metonym according to context rather than as an invariant symbol.",
      "scope_note": "Use “lips” as anatomy or speech metonym according to context rather than as an invariant symbol.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000767",
          "statement": "Scripture does not establish “lips = testimony” as a fixed symbolic code; testimony/confession is one possible speech function among praise, honor, deceit, blessing, and ordinary speech.",
          "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": "Use “lips” as anatomy or speech metonym according to context rather than as an invariant symbol.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "The legacy gloss is best understood as a compressed observation about speech/confession rather than a biblical codebook equation.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001162",
              "osis_start": "Heb.13.15",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Hebrews 13:15",
              "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-000239",
              "author_editor": "BibleHub lexical/verse reference",
              "title": "Greek cheilos (lip / speaking mouth)",
              "publication_data": "Accessed/verified 2026-09-20",
              "locator": "https://biblehub.com/greek/5491.htm",
              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": [
                {
                  "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL",
                  "target": "https://biblehub.com/greek/5491.htm"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [
    {
      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000187",
      "language": "GREEK",
      "lemma_unicode": "χεῖλος",
      "transliteration": "cheilos",
      "strongs_id": "G5491",
      "owner_tier": "TSP_MAPPING_ONLY",
      "semantic_domain_ids": []
    }
  ],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}