{
  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000139",
  "slug": "censer",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/censer/",
  "canonical_name": "Censer",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "SYMBOL"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "TABERNACLE_TEMPLE",
    "WORSHIP_IMAGERY"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000355",
      "label": "Censer as actual cultic vessel for coals/incense",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "A censer/fire-pan is first an actual cultic vessel used to carry burning coals and incense in priestly or visionary worship contexts.",
      "not_always": "The vessel, incense, altar, fire, and prayers remain distinct elements unless the text identifies them.",
      "scope_note": "The vessel, incense, altar, fire, and prayers remain distinct elements unless the text identifies them.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000355",
          "statement": "The CENSER entry must first be reclassified as an actual worship implement; its function is distinct from the incense and prayers associated with it.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 1,
          "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION",
          "status": "REQUIRES_RECLASSIFICATION",
          "public_wording_class": "CATEGORY_OR_RECLASSIFICATION_NOTICE",
          "scope_limitation": "The vessel, incense, altar, fire, and prayers remain distinct elements unless the text identifies them.",
          "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-000580",
              "osis_start": "Lev.16.12",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Leviticus 16:12-13",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000581",
              "osis_start": "Rev.8.3",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Revelation 8:3-5",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000131",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: TSP-S3 Batch 10 loci, MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Accessed/verified 2026-09-20",
              "locator": "https://classic.net.bible.org/; https://www.esv.org/",
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": [
                {
                  "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL",
                  "target": "https://classic.net.bible.org/"
                },
                {
                  "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL",
                  "target": "https://www.esv.org/"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000132",
              "author_editor": "Bible.org contributors",
              "title": "Revelation 8: censer, incense, altar, and prayers",
              "publication_data": "Accessed/verified 2026-09-20",
              "locator": "https://bible.org/seriespage/revelation-8-9",
              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "SCHOLARLY_ARGUMENT",
                "HISTORICAL_BACKGROUND"
              ],
              "locator_targets": [
                {
                  "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL",
                  "target": "https://bible.org/seriespage/revelation-8-9"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000356",
      "label": "Fixed censer = prayer/intercession/praise code",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The legacy list assigns prayer, intercession, and praises directly to the censer.",
      "not_always": "Prayer symbolism belongs primarily to incense in the relevant passages; the censer is the vessel carrying incense or altar fire.",
      "scope_note": "Prayer symbolism belongs primarily to incense in the relevant passages; the censer is the vessel carrying incense or altar fire.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000356",
          "statement": "Revelation associates incense with the prayers of the saints but distinguishes the censer from both incense and prayers; praise is not assigned to the censer.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "SYMBOL"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 7,
          "grade_basis": "G7_INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "status": "CONTRADICTED_BY_CONTEXT",
          "public_wording_class": "CONTRADICTED_BY_CONTEXT",
          "scope_limitation": "Prayer symbolism belongs primarily to incense in the relevant passages; the censer is the vessel carrying incense or altar fire.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "The literal cultic vessel plus the separately interpreted incense-prayer relation explains the passage without a censer code.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000581",
              "osis_start": "Rev.8.3",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Revelation 8:3-5",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000132",
              "author_editor": "Bible.org contributors",
              "title": "Revelation 8: censer, incense, altar, and prayers",
              "publication_data": "Accessed/verified 2026-09-20",
              "locator": "https://bible.org/seriespage/revelation-8-9",
              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "SCHOLARLY_ARGUMENT",
                "HISTORICAL_BACKGROUND"
              ],
              "locator_targets": [
                {
                  "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL",
                  "target": "https://bible.org/seriespage/revelation-8-9"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [],
  "negative_guardrails": [
    {
      "guardrail_id": "TSP-S6-R03-P03-GRD-016",
      "canonical_relation_status": "NEGATIVE_GUARDRAIL_CONTRADICTED",
      "adjudication_outcome": "CONTRADICTED_BY_CONTEXT",
      "decision_statement": "No positive fixed-symbol/type relationship is authorized for this overlap: Revelation associates incense with the prayers of the saints but distinguishes the censer from both incense and prayers; praise is not assigned to the censer."
    }
  ]
}