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    "technical_definition": "A biblical fertility-and-blessing motif in which rain, dew, and watering language signify divine provision, instruction, mercy, covenant restoration, or the ordered fruitfulness of creation.",
    "source_hint": "Draft-normalized rain/dew/showers imagery review; check each passage for agricultural literal sense, poetic comparison, or covenant blessing/judgment contrast.",
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      "reference": "Deut. 32:2",
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      "reference": "Ps. 72:6",
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      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Prov. 19:12",
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      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Isa. 44:3",
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      "certainty": "certain",
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      "example_id": "EX23_0035",
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      "reference": "Isa. 55:10",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "as the rain cometh down, and the snow",
      "explanation": "Rain and snow imagery explains the effective fruitfulness of God’s word.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Hos. 6:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "he shall come unto us as the rain",
      "explanation": "Rain imagery describes hoped-for restoration from the LORD.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Hos. 14:5",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "I will be as the dew unto Israel",
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