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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000021",
  "slug": "incense",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/incense/",
  "canonical_name": "Incense",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "SYMBOL",
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "TABERNACLE_TEMPLE",
    "WORSHIP_IMAGERY"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000041",
      "label": "Prayer-incense imagery",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "Revelation 5:8 explicitly identifies the golden bowls full of incense as the prayers of the saints; Psalm 141:2 also compares prayer to incense.",
      "not_always": "This does not make every biblical incense occurrence a coded reference to prayer.",
      "scope_note": "Limit explicit identification to the passages that supply it and treat related passages as recurrence rather than universal equivalence.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000041",
          "statement": "Revelation 5:8 explicitly identifies the bowls of incense in that vision with the prayers of the saints, establishing a genuine prayer-incense symbolic sense.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "SYMBOL"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 1,
          "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION",
          "status": "ESTABLISHED",
          "public_wording_class": "SCRIPTURE_EXPLICITLY_IDENTIFIES",
          "scope_limitation": "The explicit identification is passage-specific; related prayer/incense passages support recurrence but do not universalize the sense.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "Revelation 8:3-4 uses association rather than strict identity, which limits scope but does not overturn Revelation 5:8.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000084",
              "osis_start": "Rev.5.8",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Revelation 5:8",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000083",
              "osis_start": "Ps.141.2",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Psalm 141:2",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000085",
              "osis_start": "Rev.8.3",
              "osis_end": "Rev.8.4",
              "display_label": "Revelation 8:3-4",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000082",
              "osis_start": "Exod.30.1",
              "osis_end": "Exod.30.10",
              "display_label": "Exodus 30:1-10",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000033",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with ESV/NET comparison",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 5",
              "locator": null,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            },
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000035",
              "author_editor": "Brian J. Tabb",
              "title": "Revelation Commentary",
              "publication_data": "The Gospel Coalition Bible Commentary",
              "locator": "https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/commentary/revelation/",
              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "SCHOLARLY_ARGUMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": [
                {
                  "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL",
                  "target": "https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/commentary/revelation/"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000042",
      "label": "Literal sanctuary incense and broader worship use",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "Incense is also a real cultic substance prescribed for sanctuary service and may accompany prayer without being identical to it.",
      "not_always": "Literal ritual function precedes later symbolism.",
      "scope_note": "Distinguish Exodus sanctuary function from Revelation imagery.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000042",
          "statement": "The legacy formula incense = prayer/intercession should not be treated as a fixed rule across the biblical corpus.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "SYMBOL"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 7,
          "grade_basis": "G7_INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "status": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "public_wording_class": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "scope_limitation": "Incense can be literal cultic incense, explicit prayer imagery, or incense offered with prayers; context governs.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "The legacy statement can be retained as a passage-specific symbolic sense centered on Revelation 5:8.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "The prayer association is genuine but not universal.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000082",
              "osis_start": "Exod.30.1",
              "osis_end": "Exod.30.10",
              "display_label": "Exodus 30:1-10",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000085",
              "osis_start": "Rev.8.3",
              "osis_end": "Rev.8.4",
              "display_label": "Revelation 8:3-4",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000034",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Legacy Symbols & Types list supplied for TSP project",
              "publication_data": "User-supplied legacy corpus",
              "locator": null,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "INTERPRETIVE_HISTORY"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            },
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000033",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with ESV/NET comparison",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 5",
              "locator": null,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [
    {
      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000035",
      "language": "HEBREW",
      "lemma_unicode": "קְטֹרֶת",
      "transliteration": "qetoret",
      "strongs_id": "H7004",
      "owner_tier": "TSP_MAPPING_ONLY",
      "semantic_domain_ids": []
    },
    {
      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000036",
      "language": "GREEK",
      "lemma_unicode": "θυμίαμα",
      "transliteration": "thymiama",
      "strongs_id": "G2368",
      "owner_tier": "TSP_MAPPING_ONLY",
      "semantic_domain_ids": []
    }
  ],
  "canonical_relationships": [
    {
      "canonical_relationship_id": "TSP-S6-R03-P03-REL-0055",
      "title": "Incense",
      "canonical_statement": "Confirmed in the source-supported contextual sense: Revelation 5:8 explicitly identifies the bowls of incense in that vision with the prayers of the saints, establishing a genuine prayer-incense symbolic sense.",
      "canonical_action": "PROMOTE_ADJUDICATED_P02_POSITIVE_OR_RECLASSIFIED_GROUP_AS_DISTINCT_CUMULATIVE_CLUSTER",
      "guardrails": [],
      "relationship_status": "CONFIRMED_CONTEXTUAL_RELATION"
    }
  ],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}