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    "figure_name": "Barrenness, Opened Womb, and Miraculous Fruitfulness Imagery",
    "technical_name": "Barrenness, closed womb, opened womb, remembered woman, miraculous conception, and covenant-fruitfulness imagery",
    "alternate_names": "barrenness imagery; opened-womb imagery; miraculous-birth imagery; fruitfulness imagery; barren-woman imagery",
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    "reader_category": "Physical condition, covenant promise, reversal, mercy, fruitfulness, and impossible birth / Barrenness and opened-womb imagery",
    "bullinger_class": "Supplemental biblical imagery form",
    "simple_definition": "Barrenness and opened-womb imagery uses infertility, remembered women, opened wombs, and unexpected children to picture divine mercy, covenant promise, reversal, and fruitfulness beyond human power.",
    "technical_definition": "A barrenness-and-fruitfulness motif in which a closed womb, infertility, remembered woman, opened womb, miraculous conception, or barren woman rejoicing signifies covenant promise, divine intervention, reversal of shame, mercy, or fruitfulness granted by God.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 40 draft-normalized birth/barrenness imagery review; distinguish literal narrative barrenness from figurative Zion/restoration uses.",
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      "reference": "Gen. 11:30",
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      "reference": "Gen. 25:21",
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      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Gen. 29:31",
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      "reference": "Gen. 30:22",
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      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Judg. 13:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "thou art barren... but thou shalt conceive",
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      "reference": "1 Sam. 1:5, 20",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the LORD had shut up her womb... Samuel",
      "explanation": "Hannah's barrenness and son show prayer answered by God.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Ps. 113:9",
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      "reference": "Isa. 54:1",
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      "certainty": "certain",
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