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    "alternate_names": "winnowing imagery; sifting imagery; wheat and chaff imagery",
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    "technical_definition": "A grain-processing motif in which threshing, winnowing, sifting, wheat, and chaff represent evaluative separation, purgation, judgment, or spiritual testing.",
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      "reference": "Ruth 3:2",
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      "reference": "Ps. 1:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the wicked are like the chaff",
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      "reference": "Isa. 21:10",
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      "reference": "Isa. 30:24",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "clean provender, winnowed with the shovel and fan",
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      "reference": "Isa. 41:15-16",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "thou shalt thresh the mountains",
      "explanation": "Threshing imagery portrays God-given victory over seemingly immovable powers.",
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      "reference": "Jer. 15:7",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "I will fan them with a fan",
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      "reference": "Dan. 2:35",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors",
      "explanation": "Chaff imagery shows earthly kingdoms blown away before God’s kingdom.",
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      "reference": "Amos 9:9",
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      "reference": "Matt. 3:12",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "his fan is in his hand",
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      "reference": "Luke 22:31",
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