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    "figure_id": "FOS_0177",
    "figure_name": "Salt Imagery",
    "technical_name": "Salt/covenant-seasoning imagery",
    "alternate_names": "Covenant of salt; seasoning imagery; preserving salt imagery",
    "page_slug": "salt-imagery",
    "reader_category": "Discipleship and covenant / Preserving imagery",
    "bullinger_class": "Biblical imagery and motif forms",
    "simple_definition": "Salt imagery uses seasoning, preservation, covenant salt, and salt losing savor to describe covenant permanence, holy witness, judgment, and gracious speech.",
    "technical_definition": "A covenantal and discipleship imagery pattern in which salt functions as sign of covenant permanence, sacrificial seasoning, preserving witness, distinctiveness, warning, or wise and gracious speech.",
    "source_hint": "Draft-normalized salt imagery; verify cultic, covenantal, judgment, and discipleship uses separately.",
    "canonical_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/figures-of-speech-in-the-bible/salt-imagery/",
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    "publication_status": "style_matched_draft_v4",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0177",
      "figure_name": "Salt Imagery",
      "page_slug": "salt-imagery",
      "reference": "Lev. 2:13",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "salt of the covenant",
      "explanation": "Salt imagery marks covenant permanence and required seasoning in offerings.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized Gospel/kingdom/discipleship imagery review",
      "source_section": "Wave 21, Salt Imagery",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream before publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
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      "example_id": "EX21_0062",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0177",
      "figure_name": "Salt Imagery",
      "page_slug": "salt-imagery",
      "reference": "Num. 18:19",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "covenant of salt forever",
      "explanation": "Salt imagery signifies enduring covenant grant and stability.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized Gospel/kingdom/discipleship imagery review",
      "source_section": "Wave 21, Salt Imagery",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream before publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX21_0063",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0177",
      "figure_name": "Salt Imagery",
      "page_slug": "salt-imagery",
      "reference": "2 Chr. 13:5",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "kingdom by a covenant of salt",
      "explanation": "Salt imagery expresses durability of the Davidic covenant claim.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized Gospel/kingdom/discipleship imagery review",
      "source_section": "Wave 21, Salt Imagery",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream before publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX21_0064",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0177",
      "figure_name": "Salt Imagery",
      "page_slug": "salt-imagery",
      "reference": "Job 6:6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "that which is unsavoury without salt",
      "explanation": "Salt imagery is used in ordinary experience to speak of tastelessness and complaint.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized Gospel/kingdom/discipleship imagery review",
      "source_section": "Wave 21, Salt Imagery",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream before publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
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      "example_id": "EX21_0065",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0177",
      "figure_name": "Salt Imagery",
      "page_slug": "salt-imagery",
      "reference": "Ezek. 43:24",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "priests shall cast salt upon them",
      "explanation": "Salt imagery appears in restored-temple sacrificial procedure.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized Gospel/kingdom/discipleship imagery review",
      "source_section": "Wave 21, Salt Imagery",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream before publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX21_0066",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0177",
      "figure_name": "Salt Imagery",
      "page_slug": "salt-imagery",
      "reference": "Matt. 5:13",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "you are the salt of the earth",
      "explanation": "Salt imagery describes disciples’ preserving and distinctive witness, with warning against uselessness.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized Gospel/kingdom/discipleship imagery review",
      "source_section": "Wave 21, Salt Imagery",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream before publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX21_0067",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0177",
      "figure_name": "Salt Imagery",
      "page_slug": "salt-imagery",
      "reference": "Mark 9:49-50",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "have salt in yourselves",
      "explanation": "Salt imagery is tied to purification, peace, and discipleship seriousness.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized Gospel/kingdom/discipleship imagery review",
      "source_section": "Wave 21, Salt Imagery",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream before publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX21_0068",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0177",
      "figure_name": "Salt Imagery",
      "page_slug": "salt-imagery",
      "reference": "Luke 14:34-35",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "salt that has lost its savor",
      "explanation": "Salt imagery warns of discipleship that becomes useless.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized Gospel/kingdom/discipleship imagery review",
      "source_section": "Wave 21, Salt Imagery",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream before publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
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      "example_id": "EX21_0069",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0177",
      "figure_name": "Salt Imagery",
      "page_slug": "salt-imagery",
      "reference": "Col. 4:6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "speech seasoned with salt",
      "explanation": "Salt imagery describes gracious, wise, and fitting speech toward outsiders.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized Gospel/kingdom/discipleship imagery review",
      "source_section": "Wave 21, Salt Imagery",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream before publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    },
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      "example_id": "EX21_0070",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0177",
      "figure_name": "Salt Imagery",
      "page_slug": "salt-imagery",
      "reference": "Jas. 3:12",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "salt water and fresh",
      "explanation": "Salt imagery supports the argument that inconsistent speech reveals disorder.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized Gospel/kingdom/discipleship imagery review",
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      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream before publication.",
      "review_status": ""
    }
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