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    "alternate_names": "bitterness imagery; bitter herbs imagery; gall imagery; wormwood imagery; Mara imagery; bitter water imagery",
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    "reader_category": "Affliction, judgment, memory, poisoned injustice, and grief / Bitter-taste imagery",
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    "simple_definition": "Bitter-taste imagery uses bitter herbs, gall, wormwood, bitter water, and bitter naming to picture affliction, judgment, grief, poisoned injustice, and the hard memory of bondage or sin.",
    "technical_definition": "A taste-and-affliction motif in which bitterness functions as sensory theology for bondage, curse, sorrow, moral corruption, judicial reversal, poisoned experience, or prophetic judgment.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 35 draft-normalized food/drink/provision imagery review; distinguish this from Cup of Wrath by focusing on bitterness, gall, wormwood, Mara, and bitter taste language.",
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      "reference": "Exod. 12:8",
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      "reference": "Num. 5:18",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the bitter water that causeth the curse",
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      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "a root that beareth gall and wormwood",
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      "reference": "Ruth 1:20",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Call me Mara",
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      "reference": "Ps. 69:21",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "they gave me also gall for my meat",
      "explanation": "Gall pictures hostile cruelty toward the suffering righteous one.",
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      "reference": "Prov. 5:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "bitter as wormwood",
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      "reference": "Jer. 9:15",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "feed them... with wormwood",
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      "reference": "Lam. 3:15",
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      "reference": "Rev. 8:11",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the name of the star is called Wormwood",
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