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    "simple_definition": "Ear and hearing imagery uses listening, opened ears, dull ears, and calls to hear to describe obedience, receptivity, covenant attention, prophetic summons, and spiritual discernment.",
    "technical_definition": "A biblical reception motif in which hearing and ears function as images of obedience, teachability, covenant accountability, prophetic response, or culpable refusal to receive God’s word.",
    "source_hint": "Draft-normalized hearing imagery review; distinguish ordinary auditory hearing from covenantal hearing that includes obedient response.",
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      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Hear, O Israel",
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      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Prov. 20:12",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the hearing ear, and the seeing eye",
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      "reference": "Isa. 6:9-10",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "hear ye indeed, but understand not",
      "explanation": "Hearing imagery expresses judgment: the people hear words but refuse true understanding.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Isa. 50:4-5",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "he wakeneth mine ear",
      "explanation": "The awakened ear portrays the servant’s instructed obedience and non-rebellion.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Jer. 6:10",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "their ear is uncircumcised",
      "explanation": "The uncircumcised ear symbolizes stubborn resistance to the word of the LORD.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Matt. 11:15",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "he that hath ears to hear, let him hear",
      "explanation": "The formula urges more than sound reception; it calls for discerning and obedient response.",
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