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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000452",
  "slug": "shave",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/shave/",
  "canonical_name": "Shave",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "NARRATIVE_PATTERN_OR_TYPE_SCENE",
    "SYMBOL"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "CULTURAL_PRACTICES"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001024",
      "label": "Samson’s shaving and loss of strength in the Nazirite narrative",
      "classification": "NARRATIVE_PATTERN_OR_TYPE_SCENE",
      "definition": "Judges explicitly links the shaving of Samson’s never-cut hair with the loss of his strength and the LORD’s departure in that exceptional consecration narrative.",
      "not_always": "The connection belongs to Samson’s Nazirite consecration and covenant-breaking episode; Scripture does not make shaving intrinsically or universally equivalent to loss of strength.",
      "scope_note": "The connection belongs to Samson’s Nazirite consecration and covenant-breaking episode; Scripture does not make shaving intrinsically or universally equivalent to loss of strength.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001024",
          "statement": "Judges 16:17–20 explicitly connects shaving Samson’s head with the loss of his strength and the LORD’s departure, so the legacy association is valid in Samson’s exceptional Nazirite-consecration context but must not be generalized into a universal symbolic rule.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "NARRATIVE_PATTERN_OR_TYPE_SCENE"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 1,
          "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION",
          "status": "ESTABLISHED",
          "public_wording_class": "SCRIPTURE_EXPLICITLY_IDENTIFIES",
          "scope_limitation": "The connection belongs to Samson’s Nazirite consecration and covenant-breaking episode; Scripture does not make shaving intrinsically or universally equivalent to loss of strength.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "COVENANT"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001505",
              "osis_start": "Judg.16.17",
              "osis_end": "Judg.16.20",
              "display_label": "Judges 16:17–20",
              "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": []
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001025",
      "label": "Shaving as a universal symbol of being stripped of strength or power",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "Biblical shaving has multiple ritual, vow, mourning, humiliation, and narrative functions and therefore cannot bear one invariant symbolic meaning.",
      "not_always": "Levitical cleansing, Nazirite vow completion, prophetic humiliation imagery, and Samson’s exceptional case must be distinguished.",
      "scope_note": "Levitical cleansing, Nazirite vow completion, prophetic humiliation imagery, and Samson’s exceptional case must be distinguished.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001025",
          "statement": "Leviticus 14 uses shaving within cleansing procedure, Numbers 6 within Nazirite vow completion, and Isaiah 7:20 within humiliation/judgment imagery; these contrary functions show that “shave = being shorn of strength/power” is not a universal biblical symbol.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "SYMBOL"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 7,
          "grade_basis": "G7_INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "status": "CONTRADICTED_BY_CONTEXT",
          "public_wording_class": "CONTRADICTED_BY_CONTEXT",
          "scope_limitation": "Levitical cleansing, Nazirite vow completion, prophetic humiliation imagery, and Samson’s exceptional case must be distinguished.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001507",
              "osis_start": "Lev.14.8",
              "osis_end": "Lev.14.9",
              "display_label": "Leviticus 14:8–9",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001508",
              "osis_start": "Num.6.18",
              "osis_end": "Num.6.18",
              "display_label": "Numbers 6:18",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001509",
              "osis_start": "Isa.7.20",
              "osis_end": "Isa.7.20",
              "display_label": "Isaiah 7:20",
              "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": []
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}