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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000554",
  "slug": "weight",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/weight/",
  "canonical_name": "Weight",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "METAPHOR",
    "IMAGE"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "WEIGHTS_MEASURES"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001200",
      "label": "Biblical weight language can denote literal heaviness or, metaphorically, a burden or encumbrance; Hebrews 12:1’s command to lay aside “every weight” strongly supports the legac…",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "Biblical weight language can denote literal heaviness or, metaphorically, a burden or encumbrance; Hebrews 12:1’s command to lay aside “every weight” strongly supports the legacy burden/load association in that specified exhortational context.",
      "not_always": "Weight can be literal measure, encumbrance, glory, or other figurative heaviness depending on context.",
      "scope_note": "The burden/encumbrance sense is contextual and does not define all occurrences of weight or heaviness.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001200",
          "statement": "Biblical weight language can denote literal heaviness or, metaphorically, a burden or encumbrance; Hebrews 12:1’s command to lay aside “every weight” strongly supports the legacy burden/load association in that specified exhortational context.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
            "METAPHOR"
          ],
          "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": "The burden/encumbrance sense is contextual and does not define all occurrences of weight or heaviness.",
          "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-001840",
              "osis_start": "Heb.12.1",
              "osis_end": "Heb.12.1",
              "display_label": "Hebrews 12:1",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001841",
              "osis_start": "2Sam.14.26",
              "osis_end": "2Sam.14.26",
              "display_label": "2 Samuel 14:26",
              "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
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001201",
      "label": "Second Corinthians 4:17 speaks positively of an “eternal weight of glory,” demonstrating that weight imagery can express surpassing abundance and glory rather than burden alone;…",
      "classification": "METAPHOR",
      "definition": "Second Corinthians 4:17 speaks positively of an “eternal weight of glory,” demonstrating that weight imagery can express surpassing abundance and glory rather than burden alone; the legacy entry therefore cannot be treated as a fixed negative code.",
      "not_always": "Positive and negative figurative uses of weight coexist in Scripture.",
      "scope_note": "The phrase “weight of glory” is a distinct positive metaphor and limits any one-direction burden definition.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001201",
          "statement": "Second Corinthians 4:17 speaks positively of an “eternal weight of glory,” demonstrating that weight imagery can express surpassing abundance and glory rather than burden alone; the legacy entry therefore cannot be treated as a fixed negative code.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "METAPHOR",
            "IMAGE"
          ],
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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": "The phrase “weight of glory” is a distinct positive metaphor and limits any one-direction burden definition.",
          "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-001842",
              "osis_start": "2Cor.4.17",
              "osis_end": "2Cor.4.18",
              "display_label": "2 Corinthians 4:17–18",
              "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": []
}