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    "figure_name": "Grief, Mourning, Tears, and Broken-Heart Imagery",
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    "simple_definition": "Grief imagery uses mourning, tears, bitterness of soul, broken heart, or lament language to picture sorrow, repentance, bereavement, suffering, and the need for divine comfort.",
    "technical_definition": "A lament-and-contrition motif in which grief, mourning, tears, bitterness, brokenheartedness, or a contrite spirit signifies covenant sorrow, personal loss, repentant humility, messianic suffering, or the comfort God gives to mourners.",
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      "reference": "Gen. 37:35",
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      "reference": "1 Sam. 1:10",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "in bitterness of soul",
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      "reference": "Ps. 34:18",
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      "reference": "Ps. 51:17",
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      "reference": "Eccl. 3:4",
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      "reference": "Isa. 53:3",
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