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    "figure_id": "FOS_0118",
    "figure_name": "Merism",
    "technical_name": "Merismus",
    "alternate_names": "Extremes for totality",
    "page_slug": "merism",
    "reader_category": "Substitution / Totality",
    "bullinger_class": "Figures involving change",
    "simple_definition": "Merism names two extremes or paired parts to refer to the whole range.",
    "technical_definition": "A figure in which paired opposites, extremes, or representative parts express totality, scope, or comprehensiveness.",
    "source_hint": "Curated biblical-literary category; often treated as a subtype of synecdoche or totality expression.",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0118",
      "figure_name": "Merism",
      "page_slug": "merism",
      "reference": "Gen. 1:1",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "heavens and earth",
      "explanation": "The paired extremes name the whole created order under God’s sovereign creation.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "yes",
      "source_section": "Wave 5 curated examples",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; verify against final site Bible text stream and Bullinger section before live publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
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      "example_id": "EX5_0012",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0118",
      "figure_name": "Merism",
      "page_slug": "merism",
      "reference": "Gen. 1:27",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "male and female",
      "explanation": "The pair names the two sexes of humanity as the complete human creation in God’s image.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "yes",
      "source_section": "Wave 5 curated examples",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; verify against final site Bible text stream and Bullinger section before live publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX5_0013",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0118",
      "figure_name": "Merism",
      "page_slug": "merism",
      "reference": "Exod. 11:5",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "from firstborn of Pharaoh to firstborn of the slave girl",
      "explanation": "The social extremes describe the comprehensive reach of the plague throughout Egypt.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "no",
      "source_section": "Wave 5 curated examples",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; verify against final site Bible text stream and Bullinger section before live publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX5_0014",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0118",
      "figure_name": "Merism",
      "page_slug": "merism",
      "reference": "Deut. 6:7",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "sit in your house and walk by the way",
      "explanation": "The domestic and travel settings express comprehensive covenant instruction in ordinary life.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "yes",
      "source_section": "Wave 5 curated examples",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; verify against final site Bible text stream and Bullinger section before live publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX5_0015",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0118",
      "figure_name": "Merism",
      "page_slug": "merism",
      "reference": "Deut. 28:6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "coming in and going out",
      "explanation": "The opposite movements express the whole course of daily activity under blessing or curse.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "yes",
      "source_section": "Wave 5 curated examples",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; verify against final site Bible text stream and Bullinger section before live publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX5_0016",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0118",
      "figure_name": "Merism",
      "page_slug": "merism",
      "reference": "Josh. 1:8",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "day and night",
      "explanation": "The temporal pair expresses continual meditation rather than only two literal time slots.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "yes",
      "source_section": "Wave 5 curated examples",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; verify against final site Bible text stream and Bullinger section before live publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
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      "example_id": "EX5_0017",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0118",
      "figure_name": "Merism",
      "page_slug": "merism",
      "reference": "1 Sam. 3:2",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "eyes began to grow dim",
      "explanation": "Used with inability to see, the wording marks the total decline of Eli’s physical perception in narrative setting.",
      "certainty": "possible",
      "source": "no",
      "source_section": "Wave 5 curated examples",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; verify against final site Bible text stream and Bullinger section before live publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX5_0018",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0118",
      "figure_name": "Merism",
      "page_slug": "merism",
      "reference": "Ps. 103:12",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "east from west",
      "explanation": "The farthest imaginable directional separation expresses complete removal of transgressions.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "yes",
      "source_section": "Wave 5 curated examples",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; verify against final site Bible text stream and Bullinger section before live publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX5_0019",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0118",
      "figure_name": "Merism",
      "page_slug": "merism",
      "reference": "Ps. 121:8",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "going out and coming in",
      "explanation": "The paired movements express the entirety of the believer’s life under the LORD’s keeping.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "yes",
      "source_section": "Wave 5 curated examples",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; verify against final site Bible text stream and Bullinger section before live publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
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      "example_id": "EX5_0020",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0118",
      "figure_name": "Merism",
      "page_slug": "merism",
      "reference": "Ps. 139:2",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "sit down and rise up",
      "explanation": "The ordinary extremes of posture express the whole of David’s daily existence before God.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "yes",
      "source_section": "Wave 5 curated examples",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; verify against final site Bible text stream and Bullinger section before live publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
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      "example_id": "EX5_0021",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0118",
      "figure_name": "Merism",
      "page_slug": "merism",
      "reference": "Eccl. 3:2",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "birth and death",
      "explanation": "The paired boundaries mark the full span of human life under God’s providential ordering.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "no",
      "source_section": "Wave 5 curated examples",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; verify against final site Bible text stream and Bullinger section before live publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX5_0022",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0118",
      "figure_name": "Merism",
      "page_slug": "merism",
      "reference": "Isa. 1:6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "sole of the foot even to the head",
      "explanation": "The bodily extremes express the whole nation’s diseased moral condition.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "yes",
      "source_section": "Wave 5 curated examples",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; verify against final site Bible text stream and Bullinger section before live publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
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      "example_id": "EX5_0023",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0118",
      "figure_name": "Merism",
      "page_slug": "merism",
      "reference": "Jer. 31:34",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "least to greatest",
      "explanation": "The social extremes express comprehensive covenant knowledge of the LORD.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "yes",
      "source_section": "Wave 5 curated examples",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; verify against final site Bible text stream and Bullinger section before live publication.",
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      "figure_name": "Merism",
      "page_slug": "merism",
      "reference": "Matt. 5:18",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "jot or tittle",
      "explanation": "The smallest written details express the full enduring authority of the Law until fulfilled.",
      "certainty": "probable",
      "source": "yes",
      "source_section": "Wave 5 curated examples",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; verify against final site Bible text stream and Bullinger section before live publication.",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0118",
      "figure_name": "Merism",
      "page_slug": "merism",
      "reference": "Rev. 22:13",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Alpha and Omega, first and last, beginning and end",
      "explanation": "The paired extremes express Christ’s comprehensive sovereignty over all things.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "yes",
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      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; verify against final site Bible text stream and Bullinger section before live publication.",
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