{
  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000470",
  "slug": "snare",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/snare/",
  "canonical_name": "Snare",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "METAPHOR",
    "MOTIF"
  ],
  "modules": [],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001050",
      "label": "Snare as recurrent metaphor for entrapment and capture",
      "classification": "METAPHOR",
      "definition": "Biblical snare language repeatedly depicts danger, entrapment, capture, temptation, or bondage to an adversary.",
      "not_always": "The metaphor concerns entrapment/capture in specified contexts; it does not make every literal snare or net a theological symbol.",
      "scope_note": "The metaphor concerns entrapment/capture in specified contexts; it does not make every literal snare or net a theological symbol.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001050",
          "statement": "Psalms and the Pastoral Epistles recurrently use snare language for entrapment: hostile snares threaten the righteous, people can fall into temptation and a snare, and the devil’s snare can hold persons captive; the legacy catch/enslave association is therefore strongly supported as a bounded metaphor.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "METAPHOR",
            "MOTIF"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 4,
          "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN",
          "status": "STRONGLY_SUPPORTED",
          "public_wording_class": "CANONICAL_MOTIF",
          "scope_limitation": "The metaphor concerns entrapment/capture in specified contexts; it does not make every literal snare or net a theological symbol.",
          "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-001552",
              "osis_start": "Ps.140.5",
              "osis_end": "Ps.140.5",
              "display_label": "Psalm 140:5",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001553",
              "osis_start": "1Tim.6.9",
              "osis_end": "1Tim.6.9",
              "display_label": "1 Timothy 6:9",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001554",
              "osis_start": "2Tim.2.26",
              "osis_end": "2Tim.2.26",
              "display_label": "2 Timothy 2:26",
              "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": []
}