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    "figure_name": "Mustard Seed and Small-Beginning Imagery",
    "technical_name": "Mustard seed, small seed, hidden growth, and small-beginning imagery",
    "alternate_names": "mustard seed imagery; small seed imagery; small beginning imagery; hidden growth imagery",
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    "reader_category": "Small beginnings, faith, kingdom growth, and disproportionate outcome / Mustard seed imagery",
    "bullinger_class": "Biblical imagery and motif forms",
    "simple_definition": "Mustard seed and small-beginning imagery uses tiny seed, hidden growth, and surprising outcome to picture faith, kingdom expansion, resurrection transformation, and despised beginnings under God.",
    "technical_definition": "A small-to-great motif in which seed language, especially mustard seed language, may signify faith’s Godward efficacy, the kingdom’s outward growth from small beginnings, or the divine pattern of hidden life becoming visible fruit.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 32 draft-normalized seed/small-growth imagery review; distinguish this from Sowing and Seed-Field Imagery by focusing on mustard seed, smallness, hidden growth, faith, and disproportionate outcome.",
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      "reference": "Job 8:7",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "thy beginning was small",
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      "reference": "Zech. 4:10",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the day of small things",
      "explanation": "Smallness is not to be despised when God is accomplishing his work.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Matt. 13:31",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "like to a grain of mustard seed",
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      "reference": "Matt. 13:32",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "becometh a tree",
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      "reference": "Matt. 17:20",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "faith as a grain of mustard seed",
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      "reference": "Mark 4:27",
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      "explanation": "Hidden seed growth teaches the mysterious advance of the kingdom.",
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      "reference": "Mark 4:31",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "less than all the seeds",
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      "reference": "Mark 4:32",
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