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  "slug": "pale",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/pale/",
  "canonical_name": "Pale",
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  "aliases": [],
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      "not_always": "The adjective ranges from green vegetation to sickly/pale coloration; context, not the color word alone, determines theological force.",
      "scope_note": "The adjective ranges from green vegetation to sickly/pale coloration; context, not the color word alone, determines theological force.",
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          "statement": "Greek chlōros can describe green vegetation and, in Revelation 6:8, a greenish/pale horse; the lexical range itself therefore does not encode death or disease.",
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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": "The adjective ranges from green vegetation to sickly/pale coloration; context, not the color word alone, determines theological force.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000876",
      "label": "Pale horse scene with Death",
      "classification": "APOCALYPTIC_SYMBOL",
      "definition": "Revelation 6:8 contextually associates the pale/greenish horse with a rider explicitly named Death, followed by Hades and authority to kill by sword, famine, pestilence/death, and wild beasts; the scene strongly supports a death/judgment association without separately interpreting the color itself.",
      "not_always": "The association belongs to the fourth-seal horse-rider complex; it does not establish an invariant pale-color code.",
      "scope_note": "The association belongs to the fourth-seal horse-rider complex; it does not establish an invariant pale-color code.",
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        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000876",
          "statement": "Revelation 6:8 contextually associates the pale/greenish horse with a rider explicitly named Death, followed by Hades and authority to kill by sword, famine, pestilence/death, and wild beasts; the scene strongly supports a death/judgment association without separately interpreting the color itself.",
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          "evidence_grade": 5,
          "grade_basis": "G5_CONTEXTUALLY_PROBABLE",
          "status": "PROBABLE",
          "public_wording_class": "PROBABLE",
          "scope_limitation": "The association belongs to the fourth-seal horse-rider complex; it does not establish an invariant pale-color code.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "The pale/greenish adjective may function only as part of the visionary horse description while the explicit death/judgment meaning resides in the rider and associated killing agents rather than in the color itself.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000877",
      "label": "Rejected universal pale death/disease code",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "Scripture does not establish “pale = death and disease” as a universal color code; the same Greek adjective denotes green grass and vegetation elsewhere, while Revelation 6 supplies the ominous force through the whole horse-rider scene.",
      "not_always": "Retain the Revelation 6 death/judgment association as scene-specific; do not transfer it automatically to every pale/green occurrence.",
      "scope_note": "Retain the Revelation 6 death/judgment association as scene-specific; do not transfer it automatically to every pale/green occurrence.",
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        {
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          "scope_limitation": "Retain the Revelation 6 death/judgment association as scene-specific; do not transfer it automatically to every pale/green occurrence.",
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          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000215",
      "language": "GREEK",
      "lemma_unicode": "χλωρός",
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