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    "figure_name": "Thorn, Briar, and Thistle Imagery",
    "technical_name": "Thorn, briar, bramble, thistle, and choking-growth imagery",
    "alternate_names": "thorn imagery; briar imagery; thistle imagery; bramble imagery; choking-thorn imagery",
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    "reader_category": "Curse, danger, unfruitfulness, opposition, and reversal / Thorn imagery",
    "bullinger_class": "Biblical imagery and motif forms",
    "simple_definition": "Thorn, briar, and thistle imagery uses painful, choking, useless, or cursed growth to picture sin’s curse, danger, corrupt leadership, unfruitfulness, oppression, or promised reversal.",
    "technical_definition": "A curse-and-obstruction motif in which thorny growth may signify post-fall futility, hostile nations, worthless men, neglected vineyards, choking cares, satanic affliction, or the reversal of curse through divine restoration.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 32 draft-normalized plant/tree imagery review; distinguish thorn imagery from general wilderness imagery by focusing on thorns, thistles, briars, brambles, choking growth, and curse reversal.",
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      "reference": "Gen. 3:18",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "thorns also and thistles",
      "explanation": "Thorns and thistles mark the curse and frustration of fallen labor.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Num. 33:55",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "thorns in your sides",
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      "reference": "Judg. 9:14",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "then said all the trees unto the bramble",
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      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "2 Sam. 23:6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "as thorns thrust away",
      "explanation": "Thorns image the sons of Belial as harmful and fit for removal.",
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      "reference": "Prov. 22:5",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "thorns and snares",
      "explanation": "Thorns picture the moral danger built into the froward way.",
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      "reference": "Isa. 5:6",
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      "reference": "Isa. 55:13",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree",
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      "reference": "Matt. 13:7",
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      "reference": "John 19:2",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "a crown of thorns",
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      "reference": "2 Cor. 12:7",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "a thorn in the flesh",
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