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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000556",
  "slug": "west",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/west/",
  "canonical_name": "West",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "MOTIF"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "PLACES_DIRECTIONS"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001204",
      "label": "West is first an ordinary geographic direction. Scripture can use east–west language to express great distance or comprehensive span, as in Psalm 103:12 and Matthew 24:27, but s…",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "West is first an ordinary geographic direction. Scripture can use east–west language to express great distance or comprehensive span, as in Psalm 103:12 and Matthew 24:27, but sunset/seaward lexical associations do not make west an intrinsic symbol of evening or the closing of a day.",
      "not_always": "West can be geographic, paired with east for span/distance, or described by culture-specific directional vocabulary.",
      "scope_note": "Directional expressions may function rhetorically, geographically, or lexically; none supplies a universal west = evening/day-closing code.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001204",
          "statement": "West is first an ordinary geographic direction. Scripture can use east–west language to express great distance or comprehensive span, as in Psalm 103:12 and Matthew 24:27, but sunset/seaward lexical associations do not make west an intrinsic symbol of evening or the closing of a day.",
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            "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
            "MOTIF"
          ],
          "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": "Directional expressions may function rhetorically, geographically, or lexically; none supplies a universal west = evening/day-closing code.",
          "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-001847",
              "osis_start": "Ps.103.12",
              "osis_end": "Ps.103.12",
              "display_label": "Psalm 103:12",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001848",
              "osis_start": "Matt.24.27",
              "osis_end": "Matt.24.27",
              "display_label": "Matthew 24:27",
              "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-001205",
      "label": "The legacy orientation scheme that treats east as inherently “before,” west as “behind,” south as “right,” and north as “left” reflects features of ancient directional vocabular…",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "The legacy orientation scheme that treats east as inherently “before,” west as “behind,” south as “right,” and north as “left” reflects features of ancient directional vocabulary and orientation in some contexts, but Scripture does not establish it as a universal symbolic rule or require the interpreter to imagine a speaker perpetually facing east.",
      "not_always": "Lexical and cultural orientation is not the same thing as inspired symbolic meaning.",
      "scope_note": "Ancient directional vocabulary may preserve orientation conventions, but the legacy statement overstates them as a universal interpretive rule.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001205",
          "statement": "The legacy orientation scheme that treats east as inherently “before,” west as “behind,” south as “right,” and north as “left” reflects features of ancient directional vocabulary and orientation in some contexts, but Scripture does not establish it as a universal symbolic rule or require the interpreter to imagine a speaker perpetually facing east.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 7,
          "grade_basis": "G7_INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "status": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "public_wording_class": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "scope_limitation": "Ancient directional vocabulary may preserve orientation conventions, but the legacy statement overstates them as a universal interpretive rule.",
          "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-001849",
              "osis_start": "Gen.13.14",
              "osis_end": "Gen.13.14",
              "display_label": "Genesis 13:14",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001850",
              "osis_start": "Deut.3.27",
              "osis_end": "Deut.3.27",
              "display_label": "Deuteronomy 3:27",
              "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": []
}