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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000569",
  "slug": "wings",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/wings/",
  "canonical_name": "Wings",
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    "METAPHOR",
    "IMAGE",
    "MOTIF"
  ],
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  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
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    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000156",
      "label": "Biblical poetry explicitly uses the shelter of divine wings as a metaphor for refuge and protection.",
      "classification": "METAPHOR",
      "definition": "Biblical poetry explicitly uses the shelter of divine wings as a metaphor for refuge and protection.",
      "not_always": "The protective-wings metaphor is poetic; it does not imply divine anatomy or universal supernatural transport.",
      "scope_note": "The protective-wings metaphor is poetic; it does not imply divine anatomy or universal supernatural transport.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000156",
          "statement": "Biblical poetry explicitly uses the shelter of divine wings as a metaphor for refuge and protection.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "METAPHOR"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 1,
          "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION",
          "status": "ESTABLISHED",
          "public_wording_class": "SCRIPTURE_EXPLICITLY_IDENTIFIES",
          "scope_limitation": "The protective-wings metaphor is poetic; it does not imply divine anatomy or universal supernatural transport.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "Full legacy wording remains subject to TSP-S3 unless the S2 statement exactly exhausts it.",
          "theological_intersections": [
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            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000258",
              "osis_start": "Ps.91.4",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Psalm 91:4",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
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            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000091",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: S2 high-certainty anchor loci, MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S2 high-certainty anchor corpus, 2026-09-20",
              "locator": "https://classic.net.bible.org/",
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
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                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
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                }
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        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001245",
      "label": "Eagle-wing imagery can portray God’s covenantal deliverance and conveyance of his people: Exodus 19:4 says that the LORD bore Israel on eagles’ wings and brought them to himself, w…",
      "classification": "METAPHOR",
      "definition": "Eagle-wing imagery can portray God’s covenantal deliverance and conveyance of his people: Exodus 19:4 says that the LORD bore Israel on eagles’ wings and brought them to himself, while Deuteronomy 32:11–12 develops the eagle-bearing comparison. This supports a bounded divine-deliverance/conveyance motif, not an invariant code in which wings always mean supernatural transport.",
      "not_always": "Wing imagery may express protection, swift flight, creaturely anatomy, visionary description, or divine deliverance/conveyance according to context.",
      "scope_note": "The transport/conveyance association is valid in the Exodus/eagle comparison but must not be universalized into a supernatural-transport code.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001245",
          "statement": "Eagle-wing imagery can portray God’s covenantal deliverance and conveyance of his people: Exodus 19:4 says that the LORD bore Israel on eagles’ wings and brought them to himself, while Deuteronomy 32:11–12 develops the eagle-bearing comparison. This supports a bounded divine-deliverance/conveyance motif, not an invariant code in which wings always mean supernatural transport.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "METAPHOR",
            "IMAGE",
            "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": "The transport/conveyance association is valid in the Exodus/eagle comparison but must not be universalized into a supernatural-transport code.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "ISRAELOLOGY",
            "COVENANT"
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          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001932",
              "osis_start": "Exod.19.4",
              "osis_end": "Exod.19.4",
              "display_label": "Exodus 19:4",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000735",
              "osis_start": "Deut.32.11",
              "osis_end": "Deut.32.12",
              "display_label": "Deuteronomy 32:11–12",
              "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",
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                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
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              "locator_targets": []
            }
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          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
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  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}