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"https://ai-bible-commentary.com/figures-of-speech-in-the-bible/manna-wilderness-bread-and-heaven-bread-imagery/", "json_sidecar_path": "/data/figures-of-speech/manna-wilderness-bread-and-heaven-bread-imagery.json", "example_count": 10 }, { "figure_id": "FOS_0412", "figure_name": "Honey, Sweetness, and Promised-Land Delight Imagery", "technical_name": "Honey, honeycomb, sweetness, promised-land abundance, sweet speech, and sweet-scroll imagery", "alternate_names": "honey imagery; sweetness imagery; milk and honey imagery; honeycomb imagery; sweet words imagery", "page_slug": "honey-sweetness-and-promised-land-delight-imagery", "reader_category": "Delight, abundance, wisdom, Scripture sweetness, and mixed prophetic experience / Honey imagery", "bullinger_class": "Biblical imagery and motif forms", "simple_definition": "Honey imagery uses sweetness, honeycomb, and a land flowing with milk and honey to picture delight, abundance, pleasant speech, Scripture sweetness, and sometimes 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"https://ai-bible-commentary.com/figures-of-speech-in-the-bible/friend-companion-counselor-and-betrayal-imagery/", "json_sidecar_path": "/data/figures-of-speech/friend-companion-counselor-and-betrayal-imagery.json", "example_count": 10 }, { "figure_id": "FOS_0478", "figure_name": "Enemy, Adversary, Oppressor, and Footstool Imagery", "technical_name": "Enemy, adversary, oppressor, hater, hostile power, footstool, under-feet, and reconciliation imagery", "alternate_names": "enemy imagery; adversary imagery; oppressor imagery; footstool imagery; hostile-power imagery", "page_slug": "enemy-adversary-oppressor-and-footstool-imagery", "reader_category": "Conflict, hostility, oppression, deliverance, triumph, reconciliation, and final subjection / Enemy imagery", "bullinger_class": "Supplemental biblical imagery form", "simple_definition": "Enemy imagery uses adversaries, oppressors, hatred, footstool language, or enemies under feet to picture hostility, deliverance, judgment, reconciliation, 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"https://ai-bible-commentary.com/figures-of-speech-in-the-bible/homeland-inheritance-land-tent-and-pilgrim-country-imagery/", "json_sidecar_path": "/data/figures-of-speech/homeland-inheritance-land-tent-and-pilgrim-country-imagery.json", "example_count": 10 }, { "figure_id": "FOS_0490", "figure_name": "Assembly, Congregation, People, and Fellow-Citizen Community Imagery", "technical_name": "Assembly, congregation, people, body, common life, fellowship, holy nation, and gathered-community imagery", "alternate_names": "assembly imagery; congregation imagery; people-of-God imagery; community imagery; fellow-citizen imagery", "page_slug": "assembly-congregation-people-and-fellow-citizen-community-imagery", "reader_category": "Corporate identity, worship assembly, fellowship, peoplehood, body life, mission, and redeemed community / Community imagery", "bullinger_class": "Supplemental biblical imagery form", "simple_definition": "Community imagery uses assembly, congregation, people, body, 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