{
  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000507",
  "slug": "tail-of-scorpions",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/tail-of-scorpions/",
  "canonical_name": "Tail (of Scorpions)",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "IMAGE",
    "SYMBOL"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "APOCALYPTIC"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001108",
      "label": "Scorpion-like tails as instruments of stinging torment in Revelation 9",
      "classification": "IMAGE",
      "definition": "Revelation 9:10 explicitly says the locust-like creatures have tails and stings like scorpions and power in their tails to hurt people for five months; the legacy “that which stings” component is therefore directly supported within this apocalyptic image.",
      "not_always": "The stinging function belongs to this explicit Revelation image; ordinary tails and other visionary tails require their own contextual interpretation.",
      "scope_note": "The statement is confined to Revelation 9’s visionary creatures and should not be generalized into a symbolic meaning for tails elsewhere.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001108",
          "statement": "Revelation 9:10 explicitly says the locust-like creatures have tails and stings like scorpions and power in their tails to hurt people for five months; the legacy “that which stings” component is therefore directly supported within this apocalyptic image.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "IMAGE"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 1,
          "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION",
          "status": "ESTABLISHED",
          "public_wording_class": "SCRIPTURE_EXPLICITLY_IDENTIFIES",
          "scope_limitation": "The statement is confined to Revelation 9’s visionary creatures and should not be generalized into a symbolic meaning for tails elsewhere.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "ESCHATOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001478",
              "osis_start": "Rev.9.10",
              "osis_end": "Rev.9.10",
              "display_label": "Revelation 9:10",
              "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-001109",
      "label": "No tail equals end or death code in the scorpion-tail vision",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "Revelation 9:5–6, 10 explicitly limits the scorpion-like tail power to torment and says the creatures were not permitted to kill; the legacy claim that the tail “brings death” is contradicted by this context, and the vision never interprets the tail as “the end.”",
      "not_always": "Tail imagery must be interpreted within each vision rather than through an assumed end/death code.",
      "scope_note": "The contradiction applies to the death claim in Revelation 9’s scorpion-tail scene; the passage assigns torment/hurt, not killing, and supplies no “tail = end” interpretation.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001109",
          "statement": "Revelation 9:5–6, 10 explicitly limits the scorpion-like tail power to torment and says the creatures were not permitted to kill; the legacy claim that the tail “brings death” is contradicted by this context, and the vision never interprets the tail as “the end.”",
          "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": "The contradiction applies to the death claim in Revelation 9’s scorpion-tail scene; the passage assigns torment/hurt, not killing, and supplies no “tail = end” interpretation.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "ESCHATOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001659",
              "osis_start": "Rev.9.5",
              "osis_end": "Rev.9.6",
              "display_label": "Revelation 9:5–6",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001478",
              "osis_start": "Rev.9.10",
              "osis_end": "Rev.9.10",
              "display_label": "Revelation 9:10",
              "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": []
}