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    "figure_name": "Shield and Fortress Imagery",
    "technical_name": "Shield, buckler, fortress, refuge, stronghold, and defensive-protection imagery",
    "alternate_names": "Shield imagery, fortress imagery, refuge motif, stronghold imagery",
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    "reader_category": "Protection and refuge / Defensive imagery",
    "bullinger_class": "Biblical imagery and motif forms",
    "simple_definition": "Shield and fortress imagery uses defensive weapons and fortified places to describe protection, refuge, covenant security, faith, and the Lord’s preserving care.",
    "technical_definition": "A biblical protection motif in which shield, fortress, refuge, rock, buckler, and stronghold language communicates military defense, covenant safety, trusted deliverance, or persevering faith.",
    "source_hint": "Draft-normalized shield/fortress imagery review; distinguish literal defensive objects or cities from devotional refuge language.",
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      "reference": "Gen. 15:1",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "I am thy shield",
      "explanation": "Shield imagery presents the LORD as Abram’s protection and reward.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized royal/judicial/military/civic imagery review",
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      "representative": "yes",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0524",
      "figure_name": "Shield and Fortress Imagery",
      "page_slug": "shield-and-fortress-imagery",
      "reference": "Deut. 33:29",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the shield of thy help",
      "explanation": "Shield language describes the LORD as Israel’s saving defense.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized royal/judicial/military/civic imagery review",
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      "figure_name": "Shield and Fortress Imagery",
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      "reference": "2 Sam. 22:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "my rock, and my fortress... my shield",
      "explanation": "Fortress and shield imagery stack defensive images for divine deliverance.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized royal/judicial/military/civic imagery review",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0524",
      "figure_name": "Shield and Fortress Imagery",
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      "reference": "Ps. 3:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "thou, O LORD, art a shield for me",
      "explanation": "Shield imagery expresses personal confidence in God’s protection.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized royal/judicial/military/civic imagery review",
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      "representative": "yes",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0524",
      "figure_name": "Shield and Fortress Imagery",
      "page_slug": "shield-and-fortress-imagery",
      "reference": "Ps. 18:2",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower",
      "explanation": "Defensive imagery depicts the LORD as complete refuge and strength.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized royal/judicial/military/civic imagery review",
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      "figure_name": "Shield and Fortress Imagery",
      "page_slug": "shield-and-fortress-imagery",
      "reference": "Ps. 28:7",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the LORD is my strength and my shield",
      "explanation": "Shield language joins protection with joyful trust.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized royal/judicial/military/civic imagery review",
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      "figure_name": "Shield and Fortress Imagery",
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      "reference": "Ps. 46:1",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "God is our refuge and strength",
      "explanation": "Refuge imagery presents God as present help amid upheaval.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0524",
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      "page_slug": "shield-and-fortress-imagery",
      "reference": "Ps. 91:2",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "He is my refuge and my fortress",
      "explanation": "Fortress imagery portrays secure shelter in the LORD.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized royal/judicial/military/civic imagery review",
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      "reference": "Prov. 30:5",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him",
      "explanation": "Shield imagery links protection with trusting God’s word.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Eph. 6:16",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the shield of faith",
      "explanation": "Shield imagery describes faith as defensive reliance against spiritual attack.",
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