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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000541",
  "slug": "up",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/up/",
  "canonical_name": "Up",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "METAPHOR",
    "IMAGE"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "PLACES_DIRECTIONS"
  ],
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  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001171",
      "label": "Biblical upward/above language can express heavenward orientation toward God’s call or heavenly realities—for example the “upward call of God” and seeking “things that are above”—b…",
      "classification": "METAPHOR",
      "definition": "Biblical upward/above language can express heavenward orientation toward God’s call or heavenly realities—for example the “upward call of God” and seeking “things that are above”—but this is contextual spatial-metaphorical language rather than a fixed meaning of the word “up.”",
      "not_always": "Upward imagery can be spiritually significant when the passage makes that orientation explicit, but not as a universal directional code.",
      "scope_note": "Heavenward orientation is established in specified contexts; ordinary directional uses remain ordinary.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001171",
          "statement": "Biblical upward/above language can express heavenward orientation toward God’s call or heavenly realities—for example the “upward call of God” and seeking “things that are above”—but this is contextual spatial-metaphorical language rather than a fixed meaning of the word “up.”",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "METAPHOR",
            "IMAGE"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 4,
          "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN",
          "status": "STRONGLY_SUPPORTED",
          "public_wording_class": "STRONGLY_SUPPORTED_PATTERN",
          "scope_limitation": "Heavenward orientation is established in specified contexts; ordinary directional uses remain ordinary.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "SANCTIFICATION"
          ],
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            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001793",
              "osis_start": "Phil.3.14",
              "osis_end": "Phil.3.14",
              "display_label": "Philippians 3:14",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001794",
              "osis_start": "Col.3.1",
              "osis_end": "Col.3.2",
              "display_label": "Colossians 3:1–2",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001795",
              "osis_start": "Acts.1.9",
              "osis_end": "Acts.1.11",
              "display_label": "Acts 1:9–11",
              "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",
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                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001172",
      "label": "Scripture does not assign “up” the invariant symbolic meanings “spiritual direction,” “upwards to God,” or “progression”; literal ascent, geographic movement, exaltation, resurrect…",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "Scripture does not assign “up” the invariant symbolic meanings “spiritual direction,” “upwards to God,” or “progression”; literal ascent, geographic movement, exaltation, resurrection/ascension, and metaphorical aspiration must be distinguished passage by passage.",
      "not_always": "The inherited statement conflates several different uses of vertical-direction language.",
      "scope_note": "The inherited statement conflates several different uses of vertical-direction language.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001172",
          "statement": "Scripture does not assign “up” the invariant symbolic meanings “spiritual direction,” “upwards to God,” or “progression”; literal ascent, geographic movement, exaltation, resurrection/ascension, and metaphorical aspiration must be distinguished passage by passage.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "SYMBOL"
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          "evidence_grade": 7,
          "grade_basis": "G7_INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "status": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "public_wording_class": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "scope_limitation": "The inherited statement conflates several different uses of vertical-direction language.",
          "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-001796",
              "osis_start": "Acts.20.13",
              "osis_end": "Acts.20.13",
              "display_label": "Acts 20:13",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001793",
              "osis_start": "Phil.3.14",
              "osis_end": "Phil.3.14",
              "display_label": "Philippians 3:14",
              "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"
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              "locator_targets": []
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}