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    "figure_id": "FOS_0236",
    "figure_name": "Birthpangs and Travail Imagery",
    "technical_name": "Birthpangs, travail, labour pains, groaning, distress, and new-birth imagery",
    "alternate_names": "travail imagery; birth pang imagery; labour-pain imagery; childbirth distress imagery",
    "page_slug": "birthpangs-and-travail-imagery",
    "reader_category": "Pain, transition, and promised outcome / Birthpangs imagery",
    "bullinger_class": "Biblical imagery and motif forms",
    "simple_definition": "Birthpangs and travail imagery uses childbirth pain, labour, groaning, and sudden delivery to describe severe distress, judgment, transition, intercession, and suffering that gives way to promised life or renewal.",
    "technical_definition": "A travail-and-transition motif in which labour pains and childbirth distress represent anguish, judgment, eschatological upheaval, intercessory labour, or pain that precedes divinely promised outcome.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 27 draft-normalized bodily-life imagery review; distinguish from birth-and-seed imagery by focusing on pangs, travail, and transition.",
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      "page_slug": "birthpangs-and-travail-imagery",
      "reference": "Isa. 13:8",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them",
      "explanation": "Birthpang imagery intensifies the terror and helplessness of judgment.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
      "source_section": "Human Action, Bodily-Life, and Relational Response Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0236",
      "figure_name": "Birthpangs and Travail Imagery",
      "page_slug": "birthpangs-and-travail-imagery",
      "reference": "Isa. 26:17-18",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "like as a woman with child... crieth out in her pangs",
      "explanation": "Travail language describes anguished longing for deliverance that human strength cannot produce.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
      "source_section": "Human Action, Bodily-Life, and Relational Response Imagery Forms",
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      "example_id": "EX27_0053",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0236",
      "figure_name": "Birthpangs and Travail Imagery",
      "page_slug": "birthpangs-and-travail-imagery",
      "reference": "Isa. 42:14",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "like a travailing woman",
      "explanation": "The Lord compares long-withheld action to the sudden cries of labour.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
      "source_section": "Human Action, Bodily-Life, and Relational Response Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.",
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    },
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      "example_id": "EX27_0054",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0236",
      "figure_name": "Birthpangs and Travail Imagery",
      "page_slug": "birthpangs-and-travail-imagery",
      "reference": "Isa. 66:7-9",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "before she travailed, she brought forth",
      "explanation": "Birth imagery depicts astonishing restoration brought about by God.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
      "source_section": "Human Action, Bodily-Life, and Relational Response Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.",
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    },
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      "example_id": "EX27_0055",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0236",
      "figure_name": "Birthpangs and Travail Imagery",
      "page_slug": "birthpangs-and-travail-imagery",
      "reference": "Jer. 4:31",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "as of a woman in travail",
      "explanation": "The daughter of Zion's anguish is pictured as labour pain under judgment.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
      "source_section": "Human Action, Bodily-Life, and Relational Response Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
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    },
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      "example_id": "EX27_0056",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0236",
      "figure_name": "Birthpangs and Travail Imagery",
      "page_slug": "birthpangs-and-travail-imagery",
      "reference": "Mic. 4:9-10",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "be in pain, and labour to bring forth",
      "explanation": "Travail imagery describes exile pain that will give way to redemption.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
      "source_section": "Human Action, Bodily-Life, and Relational Response Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
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      "example_id": "EX27_0057",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0236",
      "figure_name": "Birthpangs and Travail Imagery",
      "page_slug": "birthpangs-and-travail-imagery",
      "reference": "Matt. 24:8",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "all these are the beginning of sorrows",
      "explanation": "The phrase evokes birthpangs as troubles that precede consummation.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
      "source_section": "Human Action, Bodily-Life, and Relational Response Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
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      "example_id": "EX27_0058",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0236",
      "figure_name": "Birthpangs and Travail Imagery",
      "page_slug": "birthpangs-and-travail-imagery",
      "reference": "John 16:21",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "a woman when she is in travail hath sorrow",
      "explanation": "Jesus uses childbirth pain and joy to explain sorrow turning into resurrection joy.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
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      "reference": "Rom. 8:22",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together",
      "explanation": "Creation's groaning is pictured as labour awaiting liberation.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0236",
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      "reference": "Gal. 4:19",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you",
      "explanation": "Paul uses maternal travail for pastoral labour toward spiritual formation.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized human action/bodily-life/relational response imagery review",
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