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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000562",
  "slug": "willow-tree",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/willow-tree/",
  "canonical_name": "Willow Tree",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "IMAGE"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "PLANTS_AGRICULTURE"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001218",
      "label": "Willows are literal trees associated in Scripture with water-rich growth and with branches used in the Feast of Booths; Leviticus commands rejoicing before the LORD with leafy b…",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "Willows are literal trees associated in Scripture with water-rich growth and with branches used in the Feast of Booths; Leviticus commands rejoicing before the LORD with leafy branches including willows, and Isaiah compares flourishing descendants to willows by flowing streams.",
      "not_always": "Willows can appear in celebration, flourishing, or mourning settings depending on context.",
      "scope_note": "Positive festival and flourishing contexts prevent treating the tree itself as intrinsically sorrowful.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001218",
          "statement": "Willows are literal trees associated in Scripture with water-rich growth and with branches used in the Feast of Booths; Leviticus commands rejoicing before the LORD with leafy branches including willows, and Isaiah compares flourishing descendants to willows by flowing streams.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
            "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": "Positive festival and flourishing contexts prevent treating the tree itself as intrinsically sorrowful.",
          "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-001871",
              "osis_start": "Lev.23.40",
              "osis_end": "Lev.23.40",
              "display_label": "Leviticus 23:40",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001872",
              "osis_start": "Isa.44.3",
              "osis_end": "Isa.44.4",
              "display_label": "Isaiah 44:3–4",
              "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-001219",
      "label": "Psalm 137 places willows inside an exile-lament scene where the captives hang up their lyres, but the psalm does not interpret the willow tree itself as “weeping” or “sorrow”; t…",
      "classification": "IMAGE",
      "definition": "Psalm 137 places willows inside an exile-lament scene where the captives hang up their lyres, but the psalm does not interpret the willow tree itself as “weeping” or “sorrow”; the legacy fixed equation therefore lacks sufficient biblical evidence and is contradicted by the tree’s positive uses elsewhere.",
      "not_always": "Psalm 137’s sorrow belongs to the exiled worshipers and scene, not to an inspired lexical meaning of “willow.”",
      "scope_note": "The willow is contextually present in lament but is not established as a sorrow-symbol.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001219",
          "statement": "Psalm 137 places willows inside an exile-lament scene where the captives hang up their lyres, but the psalm does not interpret the willow tree itself as “weeping” or “sorrow”; the legacy fixed equation therefore lacks sufficient biblical evidence and is contradicted by the tree’s positive uses elsewhere.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "IMAGE",
            "MOTIF"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 7,
          "grade_basis": "G7_INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "status": "CONTRADICTED_BY_CONTEXT",
          "public_wording_class": "CONTRADICTED_BY_CONTEXT",
          "scope_limitation": "The willow is contextually present in lament but is not established as a sorrow-symbol.",
          "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-001873",
              "osis_start": "Ps.137.1",
              "osis_end": "Ps.137.2",
              "display_label": "Psalm 137:1–2",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001871",
              "osis_start": "Lev.23.40",
              "osis_end": "Lev.23.40",
              "display_label": "Leviticus 23:40",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001874",
              "osis_start": "Isa.44.4",
              "osis_end": "Isa.44.4",
              "display_label": "Isaiah 44:4",
              "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": []
}