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  "slug": "whirlwind",
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      "label": "A whirlwind is first a violent windstorm whose sweeping and difficult-to-resist force is an ordinary physical feature; the legacy “hurricane/sweeping power” wording therefore re…",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "A whirlwind is first a violent windstorm whose sweeping and difficult-to-resist force is an ordinary physical feature; the legacy “hurricane/sweeping power” wording therefore requires reclassification from symbol to natural phenomenon before figurative use is considered.",
      "not_always": "The physical force of a whirlwind does not by itself determine theological meaning.",
      "scope_note": "Sweeping force is an ordinary property of the phenomenon; symbolism must be established by the passage.",
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        {
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          "statement": "A whirlwind is first a violent windstorm whose sweeping and difficult-to-resist force is an ordinary physical feature; the legacy “hurricane/sweeping power” wording therefore requires reclassification from symbol to natural phenomenon before figurative use is considered.",
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          "scope_limitation": "Sweeping force is an ordinary property of the phenomenon; symbolism must be established by the passage.",
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          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
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      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001212",
      "label": "Whirlwind imagery recurrently appears in texts of divine manifestation, judgment, and extraordinary divine action—such as the LORD answering Job from the whirlwind, Nahum’s stor…",
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      "definition": "Whirlwind imagery recurrently appears in texts of divine manifestation, judgment, and extraordinary divine action—such as the LORD answering Job from the whirlwind, Nahum’s storm-theophany language, and Elijah’s departure—yet those distinct settings prevent a single invariant whirlwind-symbol.",
      "not_always": "Manifestation, judgment, and transport/departure are different contextual functions and should not be collapsed into one meaning.",
      "scope_note": "The recurring association is divine power/action in several contexts, not a universal code for any one theological referent.",
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          "statement": "Whirlwind imagery recurrently appears in texts of divine manifestation, judgment, and extraordinary divine action—such as the LORD answering Job from the whirlwind, Nahum’s storm-theophany language, and Elijah’s departure—yet those distinct settings prevent a single invariant whirlwind-symbol.",
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            "IMAGE"
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          "scope_limitation": "The recurring association is divine power/action in several contexts, not a universal code for any one theological referent.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
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              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001862",
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  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
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