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    "figure_name": "Sackcloth, Torn Garments, and Mourning Imagery",
    "technical_name": "Sackcloth, rent garments, ashes, mourning-cloth, repentance, grief, and humiliation imagery",
    "alternate_names": "sackcloth imagery; torn garments imagery; rent clothes imagery; mourning garment imagery; repentance clothing imagery",
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    "reader_category": "Grief, repentance, humiliation, calamity, and outward sign / Sackcloth imagery",
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    "simple_definition": "Sackcloth and torn-garment imagery uses rough clothing, rent garments, ashes, and mourning dress to picture grief, repentance, humiliation, covenant distress, or outward signs that must be matched by the heart.",
    "technical_definition": "A grief-and-humiliation motif in which clothing is deliberately torn, exchanged, or roughened to externalize mourning, penitence, calamity, prophetic alarm, or false/incomplete repentance when the heart is unchanged.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 34 draft-normalized textile/garment/household object imagery review; distinguish this from Dust and Ashes Imagery by focusing on sackcloth, garment-tearing, and mourning dress.",
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      "reference": "Gen. 37:34",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins",
      "explanation": "Jacob outwardly expresses deep grief over Joseph.",
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      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "rent his mantle, and shaved his head",
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      "reference": "2 Sam. 3:31",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth",
      "explanation": "David commands public mourning for Abner.",
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      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth",
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      "reference": "Esth. 4:1",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "put on sackcloth with ashes",
      "explanation": "Mordecai mourns publicly over the decree against the Jews.",
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      "reference": "Ps. 30:11",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness",
      "explanation": "God turns mourning clothing into joy.",
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      "reference": "Isa. 58:5",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "to spread sackcloth and ashes under him",
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      "reference": "Joel 2:13",
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      "reference": "Jonah 3:5",
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      "reference": "Matt. 26:65",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the high priest rent his clothes",
      "explanation": "The torn garment marks judicial outrage, though the judgment against Jesus is unjust.",
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