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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000552",
  "slug": "watch",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/watch/",
  "canonical_name": "Watch",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "METAPHOR",
    "MOTIF"
  ],
  "modules": [],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001195",
      "label": "To watch can denote the ordinary activity of guarding or keeping watch, as when Nehemiah’s community sets a guard against enemies; this practical sense is the semantic base and …",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "To watch can denote the ordinary activity of guarding or keeping watch, as when Nehemiah’s community sets a guard against enemies; this practical sense is the semantic base and is not itself a symbol.",
      "not_always": "The headword includes both literal guard-duty and figurative vigilance.",
      "scope_note": "Literal guarding remains an ordinary activity; figurative vigilance must be demonstrated from its own context.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001195",
          "statement": "To watch can denote the ordinary activity of guarding or keeping watch, as when Nehemiah’s community sets a guard against enemies; this practical sense is the semantic base and is not itself a symbol.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 4,
          "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN",
          "status": "REQUIRES_RECLASSIFICATION",
          "public_wording_class": "CATEGORY_OR_RECLASSIFICATION_NOTICE",
          "scope_limitation": "Literal guarding remains an ordinary activity; figurative vigilance must be demonstrated from its own context.",
          "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-001835",
              "osis_start": "Neh.4.9",
              "osis_end": "Neh.4.9",
              "display_label": "Nehemiah 4:9",
              "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": []
            }
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          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001196",
      "label": "Jesus and the apostles recurrently command watchfulness, wakefulness, sobriety, and alertness in relation to temptation, perseverance, and the Lord’s coming; the legacy “wakeful…",
      "classification": "METAPHOR",
      "definition": "Jesus and the apostles recurrently command watchfulness, wakefulness, sobriety, and alertness in relation to temptation, perseverance, and the Lord’s coming; the legacy “wakefulness, alertness, on guard” wording is therefore substantially correct as exhortational language rather than as an independent symbol-code.",
      "not_always": "Literal watch periods, guards, and figurative spiritual vigilance must remain distinct.",
      "scope_note": "Spiritual vigilance is recurrent but contextually specified; not every literal watch or time-watch carries the exhortational sense.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001196",
          "statement": "Jesus and the apostles recurrently command watchfulness, wakefulness, sobriety, and alertness in relation to temptation, perseverance, and the Lord’s coming; the legacy “wakefulness, alertness, on guard” wording is therefore substantially correct as exhortational language rather than as an independent symbol-code.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "METAPHOR",
            "MOTIF"
          ],
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          "evidence_grade": 4,
          "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN",
          "status": "STRONGLY_SUPPORTED",
          "public_wording_class": "STRONGLY_SUPPORTED_PATTERN",
          "scope_limitation": "Spiritual vigilance is recurrent but contextually specified; not every literal watch or time-watch carries the exhortational sense.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "SANCTIFICATION",
            "ESCHATOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001836",
              "osis_start": "Mark.13.33",
              "osis_end": "Mark.13.37",
              "display_label": "Mark 13:33–37",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001600",
              "osis_start": "1Cor.16.13",
              "osis_end": "1Cor.16.13",
              "display_label": "1 Corinthians 16:13",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001545",
              "osis_start": "1Thess.5.6",
              "osis_end": "1Thess.5.6",
              "display_label": "1 Thessalonians 5:6",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001837",
              "osis_start": "Rev.3.2",
              "osis_end": "Rev.3.2",
              "display_label": "Revelation 3:2",
              "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": []
}