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    "figure_name": "Reed, Cane, and Bruised-Reed Imagery",
    "technical_name": "Reed, cane, staff-reed, wind-shaken reed, and bruised-reed imagery",
    "alternate_names": "reed imagery; cane imagery; bruised reed imagery; broken reed imagery; wind-shaken reed imagery",
    "page_slug": "reed-cane-and-bruised-reed-imagery",
    "reader_category": "Weakness, instability, false support, and gentle restoration / Reed imagery",
    "bullinger_class": "Biblical imagery and motif forms",
    "simple_definition": "Reed and cane imagery uses weak, wind-shaken, broken, or bruised reeds to picture instability, unreliable support, political weakness, mock rule, or the Messiah’s gentleness toward the crushed.",
    "technical_definition": "A fragility-and-support motif in which reeds may signify marsh growth, weakness, shaken instability, Egypt as unreliable staff, mock sceptre, or the Servant’s refusal to crush what is already bruised.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 32 draft-normalized plant/stem imagery review; distinguish reed imagery from general weakness imagery by focusing on reeds, cane, staff, shaking, bruising, and broken support.",
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      "reference": "Exod. 2:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "laid it in the flags by the river",
      "explanation": "Reed-bed setting frames providential preservation in weakness.",
      "certainty": "probable",
      "source": "Draft-normalized plants/trees/flowers/field-growth imagery review",
      "source_section": "Plants, Trees, Flowers, and Field-Growth Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "draft-normalized; source/context check required before publication",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0389",
      "figure_name": "Reed, Cane, and Bruised-Reed Imagery",
      "page_slug": "reed-cane-and-bruised-reed-imagery",
      "reference": "1 Kings 14:15",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "as a reed is shaken in the water",
      "explanation": "The reed pictures instability under coming judgment.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized plants/trees/flowers/field-growth imagery review",
      "source_section": "Plants, Trees, Flowers, and Field-Growth Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
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      "example_id": "EX32_0083",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0389",
      "figure_name": "Reed, Cane, and Bruised-Reed Imagery",
      "page_slug": "reed-cane-and-bruised-reed-imagery",
      "reference": "Job 40:21",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "in the covert of the reed",
      "explanation": "Reeds mark creaturely habitat and hidden place.",
      "certainty": "probable",
      "source": "Draft-normalized plants/trees/flowers/field-growth imagery review",
      "source_section": "Plants, Trees, Flowers, and Field-Growth Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0389",
      "figure_name": "Reed, Cane, and Bruised-Reed Imagery",
      "page_slug": "reed-cane-and-bruised-reed-imagery",
      "reference": "Isa. 19:6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the reeds and flags shall wither",
      "explanation": "Withered reeds image Egypt’s ecological and social collapse.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized plants/trees/flowers/field-growth imagery review",
      "source_section": "Plants, Trees, Flowers, and Field-Growth Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "draft-normalized; source/context check required before publication",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
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      "example_id": "EX32_0085",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0389",
      "figure_name": "Reed, Cane, and Bruised-Reed Imagery",
      "page_slug": "reed-cane-and-bruised-reed-imagery",
      "reference": "Isa. 36:6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "this broken reed, on Egypt",
      "explanation": "The broken reed exposes Egypt as an unreliable support.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized plants/trees/flowers/field-growth imagery review",
      "source_section": "Plants, Trees, Flowers, and Field-Growth Imagery Forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0389",
      "figure_name": "Reed, Cane, and Bruised-Reed Imagery",
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      "reference": "Isa. 42:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "a bruised reed shall he not break",
      "explanation": "The bruised reed pictures weakness treated gently by the Servant.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized plants/trees/flowers/field-growth imagery review",
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      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "draft-normalized; source/context check required before publication",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0389",
      "figure_name": "Reed, Cane, and Bruised-Reed Imagery",
      "page_slug": "reed-cane-and-bruised-reed-imagery",
      "reference": "Ezek. 29:6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "a staff of reed to the house of Israel",
      "explanation": "Egypt is condemned as a reed-staff that fails those leaning on it.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized plants/trees/flowers/field-growth imagery review",
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      "figure_name": "Reed, Cane, and Bruised-Reed Imagery",
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      "reference": "Matt. 11:7",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "a reed shaken with the wind",
      "explanation": "Jesus contrasts John with a weak, unstable reed.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized plants/trees/flowers/field-growth imagery review",
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      "reference": "Matt. 12:20",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "a bruised reed shall he not break",
      "explanation": "Matthew applies bruised-reed gentleness to the Messiah’s ministry.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Matt. 27:29",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "a reed in his right hand",
      "explanation": "The reed becomes a mock sceptre in the humiliation of the true King.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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