{
  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000542",
  "slug": "urim-thummim",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/urim-thummim/",
  "canonical_name": "Urim & Thummim",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "MOTIF"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "OFFICES",
    "TABERNACLE_TEMPLE"
  ],
  "aliases": [
    {
      "alias_text": "URIM & THUMMIN",
      "alias_type": "LEGACY_SPELLING"
    }
  ],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001173",
      "label": "Urim and Thummim are divinely appointed priestly means connected with the breastpiece of judgment and with inquiry before the LORD; Numbers 27 explicitly directs Joshua to stand be…",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "Urim and Thummim are divinely appointed priestly means connected with the breastpiece of judgment and with inquiry before the LORD; Numbers 27 explicitly directs Joshua to stand before Eleazar, who is to inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim.",
      "not_always": "Urim and Thummim belong to Israel’s priestly means of inquiry and judgment, not to an abstract symbol detached from that institution.",
      "scope_note": "The texts establish priestly inquiry/divine decision as function; they do not explain the objects’ physical mechanism in detail.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001173",
          "statement": "Urim and Thummim are divinely appointed priestly means connected with the breastpiece of judgment and with inquiry before the LORD; Numbers 27 explicitly directs Joshua to stand before Eleazar, who is to inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
            "MOTIF"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 1,
          "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION",
          "status": "ESTABLISHED",
          "public_wording_class": "SCRIPTURE_EXPLICITLY_IDENTIFIES",
          "scope_limitation": "The texts establish priestly inquiry/divine decision as function; they do not explain the objects’ physical mechanism in detail.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "COVENANT"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001797",
              "osis_start": "Exod.28.30",
              "osis_end": "Exod.28.30",
              "display_label": "Exodus 28:30",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001798",
              "osis_start": "Num.27.21",
              "osis_end": "Num.27.21",
              "display_label": "Numbers 27:21",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001799",
              "osis_start": "1Sam.28.6",
              "osis_end": "1Sam.28.6",
              "display_label": "1 Samuel 28:6",
              "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-001174",
      "label": "Scripture does not equate Urim and Thummim with “the mind of God.” Their function mediates authorized priestly inquiry and divine judgment, but the inherited identity-formula goes …",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "Scripture does not equate Urim and Thummim with “the mind of God.” Their function mediates authorized priestly inquiry and divine judgment, but the inherited identity-formula goes beyond the wording and leaves the objects’ exact operation unspecified.",
      "not_always": "Divine guidance through an instituted means is not identical with a symbolic equation between the objects and God’s mind.",
      "scope_note": "Divine guidance through an instituted means is not identical with a symbolic equation between the objects and God’s mind.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001174",
          "statement": "Scripture does not equate Urim and Thummim with “the mind of God.” Their function mediates authorized priestly inquiry and divine judgment, but the inherited identity-formula goes beyond the wording and leaves the objects’ exact operation unspecified.",
          "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": "Divine guidance through an instituted means is not identical with a symbolic equation between the objects and God’s mind.",
          "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-001797",
              "osis_start": "Exod.28.30",
              "osis_end": "Exod.28.30",
              "display_label": "Exodus 28:30",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001798",
              "osis_start": "Num.27.21",
              "osis_end": "Num.27.21",
              "display_label": "Numbers 27:21",
              "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": []
}