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    "figure_id": "FOS_0379",
    "figure_name": "Fox, Jackal, and Ruin-Dweller Imagery",
    "technical_name": "Fox, jackal-like ruin animal, den-dweller, cunning ruler, and desolation-creature imagery",
    "alternate_names": "fox imagery; jackal imagery; ruin-dweller imagery; little foxes imagery; desert fox imagery",
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    "reader_category": "Cunning, small destroyers, desolation, and exposed falsehood / Fox imagery",
    "bullinger_class": "Biblical imagery and motif forms",
    "simple_definition": "Fox, jackal, and ruin-dweller imagery uses foxes, holes, desert animals, and jackal-like desolation creatures to describe cunning, small destructive threats, homelessness, ruined cities, false prophets, and contemptuous rulers.",
    "technical_definition": "A cunning-and-desolation motif in which fox or jackal-like creatures represent small but damaging threats, desert-dwelling opportunism, ruin after judgment, homeless earthly life, political craftiness, or false prophetic activity in broken places.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 31 draft-normalized creature imagery review; KJV often uses “foxes” and “dragons” where later readers may think of foxes, jackals, or ruin-dwelling desert animals. Source/context check required before publication.",
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      "reference": "Judg. 15:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Samson went and caught three hundred foxes",
      "explanation": "Foxes become instruments in a judgment scene against Philistine fields.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
      "source_section": "Animal, Bird, and Insect Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
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      "example_id": "EX31_0082",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0379",
      "figure_name": "Fox, Jackal, and Ruin-Dweller Imagery",
      "page_slug": "fox-jackal-and-ruin-dweller-imagery",
      "reference": "Neh. 4:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall",
      "explanation": "The fox image is used in mockery of Jerusalem’s weak rebuilding.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
      "source_section": "Animal, Bird, and Insect Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0379",
      "figure_name": "Fox, Jackal, and Ruin-Dweller Imagery",
      "page_slug": "fox-jackal-and-ruin-dweller-imagery",
      "reference": "Ps. 63:10",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "they shall be a portion for foxes",
      "explanation": "Foxes picture shameful exposure after judgment.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
      "source_section": "Animal, Bird, and Insect 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": "EX31_0084",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0379",
      "figure_name": "Fox, Jackal, and Ruin-Dweller Imagery",
      "page_slug": "fox-jackal-and-ruin-dweller-imagery",
      "reference": "Song 2:15",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the little foxes, that spoil the vines",
      "explanation": "Little foxes image small destructive threats to fruitful love.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
      "source_section": "Animal, Bird, and Insect Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; source/context check before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
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      "example_id": "EX31_0085",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0379",
      "figure_name": "Fox, Jackal, and Ruin-Dweller Imagery",
      "page_slug": "fox-jackal-and-ruin-dweller-imagery",
      "reference": "Jer. 9:11",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "a den of dragons",
      "explanation": "Ruin-dwelling animals mark Jerusalem’s desolation after judgment.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
      "source_section": "Animal, Bird, and Insect Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
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      "example_id": "EX31_0086",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0379",
      "figure_name": "Fox, Jackal, and Ruin-Dweller Imagery",
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      "reference": "Lam. 5:18",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the foxes walk upon it",
      "explanation": "Foxes on Zion’s mountain image devastation and abandoned holy space.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
      "source_section": "Animal, Bird, and Insect Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0379",
      "figure_name": "Fox, Jackal, and Ruin-Dweller Imagery",
      "page_slug": "fox-jackal-and-ruin-dweller-imagery",
      "reference": "Ezek. 13:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts",
      "explanation": "False prophets are compared to opportunistic animals in wasteland ruins.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
      "source_section": "Animal, Bird, and Insect Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
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      "example_id": "EX31_0088",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0379",
      "figure_name": "Fox, Jackal, and Ruin-Dweller Imagery",
      "page_slug": "fox-jackal-and-ruin-dweller-imagery",
      "reference": "Matt. 8:20",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "The foxes have holes",
      "explanation": "Fox holes contrast with the Son of man’s earthly homelessness.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
      "source_section": "Animal, Bird, and Insect Imagery Forms",
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      "page_slug": "fox-jackal-and-ruin-dweller-imagery",
      "reference": "Luke 13:32",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Go ye, and tell that fox",
      "explanation": "Jesus uses fox imagery for Herod’s cunning but limited threat.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
      "source_section": "Animal, Bird, and Insect Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0379",
      "figure_name": "Fox, Jackal, and Ruin-Dweller Imagery",
      "page_slug": "fox-jackal-and-ruin-dweller-imagery",
      "reference": "Mal. 1:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "his heritage for the dragons of the wilderness",
      "explanation": "Ruin-creature imagery marks Edom’s judged inheritance.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized animal/bird/insect imagery review",
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