{
  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000574",
  "slug": "wormwood",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/wormwood/",
  "canonical_name": "Wormwood",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
    "METAPHOR",
    "IMAGE",
    "APOCALYPTIC_SYMBOL"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "PLANTS_AGRICULTURE",
    "APOCALYPTIC"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-001241",
      "label": "Wormwood is associated with intense bitterness, and Scripture recurrently employs it in contexts of poisoned fruit, grievous experience, corrupted justice, affliction, and divine j…",
      "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
      "definition": "Wormwood is associated with intense bitterness, and Scripture recurrently employs it in contexts of poisoned fruit, grievous experience, corrupted justice, affliction, and divine judgment; the legacy bitterness association is strongly supported when bounded by those contexts.",
      "not_always": "Wormwood imagery is consistently bitter but its contextual referent can be affliction, injustice, apostasy, or judgment.",
      "scope_note": "Bitterness is strongly attested; the precise theological referent remains passage-specific.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001241",
          "statement": "Wormwood is associated with intense bitterness, and Scripture recurrently employs it in contexts of poisoned fruit, grievous experience, corrupted justice, affliction, and divine judgment; the legacy bitterness association is strongly supported when bounded by those contexts.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION",
            "METAPHOR",
            "IMAGE",
            "MOTIF"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 4,
          "grade_basis": "G4_RECURRENT_CANONICAL_MOTIF_OR_STRONG_THEMATIC_PATTERN",
          "status": "STRONGLY_SUPPORTED",
          "public_wording_class": "CANONICAL_MOTIF",
          "scope_limitation": "Bitterness is strongly attested; the precise theological referent remains passage-specific.",
          "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-001921",
              "osis_start": "Deut.29.18",
              "osis_end": "Deut.29.18",
              "display_label": "Deuteronomy 29:18",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001922",
              "osis_start": "Prov.5.4",
              "osis_end": "Prov.5.4",
              "display_label": "Proverbs 5:4",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001923",
              "osis_start": "Jer.9.15",
              "osis_end": "Jer.9.15",
              "display_label": "Jeremiah 9:15",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001924",
              "osis_start": "Amos.5.7",
              "osis_end": "Amos.5.7",
              "display_label": "Amos 5:7",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001925",
              "osis_start": "Lam.3.19",
              "osis_end": "Lam.3.19",
              "display_label": "Lamentations 3:19",
              "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-001242",
      "label": "Revelation 8 names the fallen star “Wormwood,” says the waters become bitter, and records resulting deaths, but the vision does not identify Wormwood with Satan or define it as “Sa…",
      "classification": "APOCALYPTIC_SYMBOL",
      "definition": "Revelation 8 names the fallen star “Wormwood,” says the waters become bitter, and records resulting deaths, but the vision does not identify Wormwood with Satan or define it as “Satanic power of death.” Revelation explicitly identifies Satan elsewhere when that identity is intended.",
      "not_always": "The Wormwood star belongs to its own trumpet vision; its identity must not be imported from other satanic imagery without textual control.",
      "scope_note": "Bitterness and death are explicit effects in Revelation 8; Satanic identity is not.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-001242",
          "statement": "Revelation 8 names the fallen star “Wormwood,” says the waters become bitter, and records resulting deaths, but the vision does not identify Wormwood with Satan or define it as “Satanic power of death.” Revelation explicitly identifies Satan elsewhere when that identity is intended.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "APOCALYPTIC_SYMBOL",
            "IMAGE"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 7,
          "grade_basis": "G7_INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "status": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "public_wording_class": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "scope_limitation": "Bitterness and death are explicit effects in Revelation 8; Satanic identity is not.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "ESCHATOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001595",
              "osis_start": "Rev.8.10",
              "osis_end": "Rev.8.11",
              "display_label": "Revelation 8:10–11",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-001810",
              "osis_start": "Rev.12.9",
              "osis_end": "Rev.12.9",
              "display_label": "Revelation 12:9",
              "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": [
    {
      "guardrail_id": "TSP-S6-R03-P03-GRD-040",
      "canonical_relation_status": "NEGATIVE_GUARDRAIL_INSUFFICIENT",
      "adjudication_outcome": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
      "decision_statement": "No positive canonical type/symbol relationship is promoted beyond the source evidence: Revelation 8 names the fallen star “Wormwood,” says the waters become bitter, and records resulting deaths, but the vision does not identify Wormwood with Satan or define it as “Satanic power of death.” Revelation explicitly identifies Satan elsewhere when that identity is intended."
    }
  ]
}