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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000380",
  "slug": "palmerworm",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/palmerworm/",
  "canonical_name": "Palmerworm",
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    "IMAGE",
    "MOTIF",
    "SYMBOL"
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    "ANIMALS"
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  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
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      "not_always": "Translation labels such as palmerworm, caterpillar, and gnawing locust must not create separate theological entities where the Hebrew denotes locust devastation.",
      "scope_note": "Translation labels such as palmerworm, caterpillar, and gnawing locust must not create separate theological entities where the Hebrew denotes locust devastation.",
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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": "Translation labels such as palmerworm, caterpillar, and gnawing locust must not create separate theological entities where the Hebrew denotes locust devastation.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000290",
              "author_editor": "BibleHub/BibleGateway reference",
              "title": "Joel 1:4; 2:25; Amos 4:9 gazam locust references",
              "publication_data": "Accessed/verified 2026-09-20",
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    },
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000880",
      "label": "Palmerworm/locust devastation as judgment motif",
      "classification": "MOTIF",
      "definition": "Joel 1:4, Joel 2:25, and Amos 4:9 recurrently present gazam within devastating crop destruction and divine disciplinary/judgment contexts, strongly supporting a destructive-power association at the level of locust devastation.",
      "not_always": "The destructive association concerns literal/prohetic locust devastation and judgment; any human or spiritual enemy referent must be established by the individual passage.",
      "scope_note": "The destructive association concerns literal/prohetic locust devastation and judgment; any human or spiritual enemy referent must be established by the individual passage.",
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        {
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          "statement": "Joel 1:4, Joel 2:25, and Amos 4:9 recurrently present gazam within devastating crop destruction and divine disciplinary/judgment contexts, strongly supporting a destructive-power association at the level of locust devastation.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
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          "evidence_grade": 4,
          "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN",
          "status": "STRONGLY_SUPPORTED",
          "public_wording_class": "CANONICAL_MOTIF",
          "scope_limitation": "The destructive association concerns literal/prohetic locust devastation and judgment; any human or spiritual enemy referent must be established by the individual passage.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
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      ]
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000881",
      "label": "Rejected fixed spiritual destructive-power code",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "Scripture does not identify the palmerworm/gazam as a fixed symbol of spiritual destructive powers; its primary uses concern locust devastation, and symbolic enemy identifications must be demonstrated from their own contexts.",
      "not_always": "Do not convert an archaic insect label into an invariant spiritual-force code.",
      "scope_note": "Do not convert an archaic insect label into an invariant spiritual-force code.",
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        {
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          "grade_basis": "G7_INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
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          "public_wording_class": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "scope_limitation": "Do not convert an archaic insect label into an invariant spiritual-force code.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
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      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000217",
      "language": "HEBREW",
      "lemma_unicode": "גָּזָם",
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      "strongs_id": "H1501",
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  "negative_guardrails": []
}