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    "simple_definition": "Silence and stillness imagery uses the absence of sound to picture reverence before God, trusting restraint, judgment dread, grief, or patient waiting.",
    "technical_definition": "An auditory-absence motif in which silence, hush, stillness, quiet waiting, or speechlessness signifies reverent awe, covenant submission, restrained trust, impending judgment, lament, or eschatological solemnity.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 37 draft-normalized sound/music/voice imagery review; distinguish this from Aposiopesis by focusing on silence as theological imagery rather than an interrupted sentence form.",
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      "reference": "Exod. 14:14",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "ye shall hold your peace",
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      "reference": "1 Kgs. 19:12",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "a still small voice",
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      "reference": "Ps. 46:10",
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      "reference": "Ps. 62:1",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Truly my soul waiteth upon God",
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      "reference": "Lam. 3:26",
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      "reference": "Amos 5:13",
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      "reference": "Hab. 2:20",
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