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    "alternate_names": "dream imagery; night vision imagery; sleep revelation imagery; nocturnal warning imagery",
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    "reader_category": "Revelation, warning, and providential guidance / Dream imagery",
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    "simple_definition": "Dreams and night visions imagery uses sleep, dreams, and night visions to show divine warning, covenant promise, prophetic disclosure, providential direction, or human inability to control revelation.",
    "technical_definition": "A revelation-and-guidance motif in which God gives disclosure, warning, interpretation, promise, or reassurance through dreams and night visions, especially when ordinary human control and calculation are set aside.",
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      "reference": "Gen. 20:3",
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      "reference": "Gen. 28:12",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth",
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      "reference": "Num. 12:6",
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      "reference": "Dan. 2:28",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "maketh known... what shall be in the latter days",
      "explanation": "Nebuchadnezzar’s dream becomes a vehicle for divine revelation about kingdoms.",
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      "reference": "Dan. 7:2",
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      "explanation": "The night vision opens apocalyptic disclosure of empires and divine rule.",
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      "reference": "Matt. 1:20",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream",
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      "reference": "Matt. 2:12",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "being warned of God in a dream",
      "explanation": "The dream protects the child Jesus from Herod’s murderous intent.",
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      "reference": "Acts 16:9",
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      "explanation": "The night vision redirects missionary movement toward Macedonia.",
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