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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000404",
  "slug": "psaltery",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/psaltery/",
  "canonical_name": "Psaltery",
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  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
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      "not_always": "Instrument identification is historical/lexical description rather than symbolic meaning.",
      "scope_note": "Instrument identification is historical/lexical description rather than symbolic meaning.",
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        {
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          "statement": "The Hebrew nebel commonly rendered psaltery, lute, or harp denotes a stringed instrument in its musical uses; the legacy description “a wind instrument” is not supported.",
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          "evidence_grade": 4,
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          "status": "REQUIRES_RECLASSIFICATION",
          "public_wording_class": "CATEGORY_OR_RECLASSIFICATION_NOTICE",
          "scope_limitation": "Instrument identification is historical/lexical description rather than symbolic meaning.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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              "osis_start": "Ps.33.2",
              "osis_end": null,
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001350",
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              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000313",
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              "title": "Hebrew nebel: stringed psaltery/lute and worship use",
              "publication_data": "Accessed/verified 2026-09-20",
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000938",
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      "not_always": "Liturgical use establishes an association with praise/worship, not an intrinsic symbolic meaning of the instrument itself.",
      "scope_note": "Liturgical use establishes an association with praise/worship, not an intrinsic symbolic meaning of the instrument itself.",
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        {
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          "statement": "Psaltery/nebel is recurrently employed in biblical praise and organized worship, supporting a strong association with musical praise when the context is liturgical or doxological.",
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          "scope_limitation": "Liturgical use establishes an association with praise/worship, not an intrinsic symbolic meaning of the instrument itself.",
          "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-000993",
              "osis_start": "Ps.150.3",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Psalm 150:3",
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001351",
              "osis_start": "1Chr.15.16",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "1 Chronicles 15:16",
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000939",
      "label": "Rejected universal psaltery = praise/rejoicing code",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The psaltery is not an invariant symbol of praise, worship, or rejoicing: Isaiah 5:12 includes such instruments in feasting while condemning the participants for disregarding the LORD’s work.",
      "not_always": "Use of an instrument in worship is not equivalent to a divinely assigned one-to-one symbolic meaning.",
      "scope_note": "Use of an instrument in worship is not equivalent to a divinely assigned one-to-one symbolic meaning.",
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        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000939",
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          "evidence_grade": 7,
          "grade_basis": "G7_INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
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          "public_wording_class": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
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          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001352",
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  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}