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    "figure_name": "Groaning Creation, Birth Pangs, Travail, and Restoration Imagery",
    "technical_name": "Groaning creation, labor pains, travail, birth pangs, creation’s bondage, crisis-before-deliverance, and restoration imagery",
    "alternate_names": "birth-pangs imagery; travail imagery; groaning creation imagery; labor-pain imagery; restoration-through-crisis imagery",
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    "reader_category": "Creation’s bondage, covenant crisis, suffering before deliverance, eschatological hope, and restoration / Travail imagery",
    "bullinger_class": "Supplemental biblical imagery form",
    "simple_definition": "Groaning and birth-pangs imagery uses labor, travail, or creation’s groaning to picture painful crisis that precedes judgment, deliverance, resurrection, or final restoration.",
    "technical_definition": "A travail-and-restoration motif in which groaning creation, labor pains, birth pangs, travail, or crisis-before-birth language signifies curse-burdened creation, impending judgment, redemptive suffering, eschatological transition, or hope-filled restoration.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 43 draft-normalized groaning/birth-pangs imagery review; distinguish ordinary childbirth metaphor, prophetic crisis, messianic transition, and Romans 8 creation renewal.",
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      "reference": "Gen. 3:17-19",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "cursed is the ground",
      "explanation": "Creation’s burden begins with the curse and toil after human sin.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
      "source_section": "Wave 43 cosmic signs/sun-moon-stars/heaven-earth shaking/creation-order/new-creation imagery expansion",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0500",
      "figure_name": "Groaning Creation, Birth Pangs, Travail, and Restoration Imagery",
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      "reference": "Isa. 13:8",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "pangs and sorrows shall take hold",
      "explanation": "Labor-pain imagery pictures panic and helplessness in the Day of the LORD.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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    },
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      "example_id": "EX43_0093",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0500",
      "figure_name": "Groaning Creation, Birth Pangs, Travail, and Restoration Imagery",
      "page_slug": "groaning-creation-birth-pangs-travail-and-restoration-imagery",
      "reference": "Isa. 26:17-18",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "as a woman with child",
      "explanation": "Travail imagery expresses helpless longing for deliverance not yet achieved.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
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      "representative": "no",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0500",
      "figure_name": "Groaning Creation, Birth Pangs, Travail, and Restoration Imagery",
      "page_slug": "groaning-creation-birth-pangs-travail-and-restoration-imagery",
      "reference": "Isa. 42:14",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "I will cry like a travailing woman",
      "explanation": "The LORD’s long restraint is pictured as labor-like intensity before action.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
      "source_section": "Wave 43 cosmic signs/sun-moon-stars/heaven-earth shaking/creation-order/new-creation imagery expansion",
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      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Source/context check before final publication.",
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    },
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      "example_id": "EX43_0095",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0500",
      "figure_name": "Groaning Creation, Birth Pangs, Travail, and Restoration Imagery",
      "page_slug": "groaning-creation-birth-pangs-travail-and-restoration-imagery",
      "reference": "Isa. 66:7-9",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "before she travailed, she brought forth",
      "explanation": "Birth imagery portrays surprising restoration and God’s power to complete Zion’s renewal.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
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      "review_notes": "Source/context check before final publication.",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0500",
      "figure_name": "Groaning Creation, Birth Pangs, Travail, and Restoration Imagery",
      "page_slug": "groaning-creation-birth-pangs-travail-and-restoration-imagery",
      "reference": "Jer. 4:31",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "as of a woman in travail",
      "explanation": "Travail language pictures Judah’s anguish under judgment.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
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      "representative": "no",
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      "figure_name": "Groaning Creation, Birth Pangs, Travail, and Restoration Imagery",
      "page_slug": "groaning-creation-birth-pangs-travail-and-restoration-imagery",
      "reference": "Matt. 24:8",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the beginning of sorrows",
      "explanation": "Birth-pangs imagery frames end-time troubles as painful signs before consummation.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
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      "reference": "John 16:21",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "as soon as she is delivered",
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      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Rom. 8:22",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the whole creation groaneth and travaileth",
      "explanation": "Creation’s groaning and labor pains point toward future liberation and adoption glory.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "travail upon a woman with child",
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