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  "slug": "pitcher",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/pitcher/",
  "canonical_name": "Pitcher",
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    "METAPHOR",
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  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000909",
      "label": "Pitcher as ordinary jar/vessel",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "Hebrew kad denotes an ordinary jar or pitcher used for domestic water, food, or similar contents; its basic sense is a literal vessel rather than an intrinsic symbol of the human body.",
      "not_always": "The ordinary container sense controls unless a passage itself supplies figurative force.",
      "scope_note": "The ordinary container sense controls unless a passage itself supplies figurative force.",
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          "statement": "Hebrew kad denotes an ordinary jar or pitcher used for domestic water, food, or similar contents; its basic sense is a literal vessel rather than an intrinsic symbol of the human body.",
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          "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN",
          "status": "REQUIRES_RECLASSIFICATION",
          "public_wording_class": "CATEGORY_OR_RECLASSIFICATION_NOTICE",
          "scope_limitation": "The ordinary container sense controls unless a passage itself supplies figurative force.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001314",
              "osis_start": "Gen.24.15",
              "osis_end": null,
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000040",
              "osis_start": "1Kgs.17.12",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "1 Kings 17:12",
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000910",
      "label": "Pitchers in Gideon narrative",
      "classification": "IMAGE",
      "definition": "Judges 7 uses empty pitchers/jars tactically to conceal torches until they are smashed; the narrative gives them a concrete military function but does not interpret the pitchers themselves as the human body.",
      "not_always": "The jars are a literal tactical device in Judges 7; later body-vessel analogies must not be retrojected into the story.",
      "scope_note": "The jars are a literal tactical device in Judges 7; later body-vessel analogies must not be retrojected into the story.",
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          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000910",
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          "scope_limitation": "The jars are a literal tactical device in Judges 7; later body-vessel analogies must not be retrojected into the story.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001315",
              "osis_start": "Judg.7.16",
              "osis_end": "Judg.7.20",
              "display_label": "Judges 7:16-20",
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      ]
    },
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000911",
      "label": "Pitcher shattered in Ecclesiastes death imagery",
      "classification": "IMAGE",
      "definition": "Ecclesiastes 12:6 includes a pitcher shattered at the fountain within an extended poetic description of aging and death, making a life-fragility/body-related reading contextually plausible; however, the text does not isolate “pitcher = human body” as an explicit universal symbol.",
      "not_always": "A mortality/body reading is plausible within Ecclesiastes 12’s composite imagery, but the individual image is not explicitly decoded.",
      "scope_note": "A mortality/body reading is plausible within Ecclesiastes 12’s composite imagery, but the individual image is not explicitly decoded.",
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        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000911",
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          "evidence_grade": 5,
          "grade_basis": "G5_CONTEXTUALLY_PROBABLE",
          "status": "PROBABLE",
          "public_wording_class": "PROBABLE",
          "scope_limitation": "A mortality/body reading is plausible within Ecclesiastes 12’s composite imagery, but the individual image is not explicitly decoded.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "The pitcher may function simply as one component of a broader broken-water-system image for life ceasing, without a one-to-one anatomical/body referent.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001316",
              "osis_start": "Eccl.12.6",
              "osis_end": "Eccl.12.7",
              "display_label": "Ecclesiastes 12:6-7",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
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      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000230",
      "language": "HEBREW",
      "lemma_unicode": "כַּד",
      "transliteration": "kad",
      "strongs_id": "H3537",
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  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}