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    "figure_name": "Tears and Weeping Imagery",
    "technical_name": "Tears, weeping, mourning, lament tears, and wiped-away tears imagery",
    "alternate_names": "weeping imagery; tears imagery; mourning imagery; wiped tears imagery",
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    "simple_definition": "Tears and weeping imagery uses tears, mourning, weeping, remembered tears, and wiped-away tears to express grief, repentance, oppression, compassion, sowing in sorrow, and final divine consolation.",
    "technical_definition": "A grief-and-consolation motif in which tears and weeping represent lament, repentance, compassion, suffering, covenant sorrow, hopeful endurance, or God's promised removal of grief.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 27 draft-normalized bodily-life imagery review; distinguish the imagery of tears from the larger rhetorical form of lament.",
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      "reference": "Ps. 6:6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "I make my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears",
      "explanation": "Tears give embodied expression to deep distress before God.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Ps. 30:5",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning",
      "explanation": "Weeping and joy contrast temporary sorrow with restored favour.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Ps. 56:8",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "put thou my tears into thy bottle",
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      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Ps. 126:5-6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "they that sow in tears shall reap in joy",
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      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Eccles. 3:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "a time to weep, and a time to laugh",
      "explanation": "Weeping marks one of the appointed seasons of life under God.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Jer. 9:1",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "mine eyes a fountain of tears",
      "explanation": "The fountain of tears intensifies grief over covenant ruin.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Luke 7:38",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "began to wash his feet with tears",
      "explanation": "Tears express repentance, love, and humble devotion to Christ.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "John 11:35",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Jesus wept",
      "explanation": "Christ's tears reveal real compassion in the presence of death and grief.",
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      "reference": "Acts 20:31",
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      "reference": "Rev. 21:4",
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