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    "figure_name": "Kneeling, Bowing, and Prostration Imagery",
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    "alternate_names": "bowing imagery; kneeling imagery; prostration imagery; falling-down imagery",
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    "reader_category": "Worship, submission, and homage / Posture imagery",
    "bullinger_class": "Biblical imagery and motif forms",
    "simple_definition": "Kneeling, bowing, and prostration imagery uses bodily posture to show worship, submission, homage, repentance, fear, dependence, and the final acknowledgment of God's rule.",
    "technical_definition": "A posture-and-homage motif in which kneeling, bowing, falling down, and prostration embody worship, covenant submission, humility, repentance, fear, or compelled recognition of divine kingship.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 27 draft-normalized bodily-life imagery review; keep distinct from generic worship formulas by focusing on embodied posture.",
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      "reference": "Gen. 24:26",
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      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "bowed themselves with their faces to the ground",
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      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "let us worship and bow down: let us kneel",
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      "reference": "Isa. 45:23",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "unto me every knee shall bow",
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      "reference": "Dan. 6:10",
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      "reference": "Matt. 2:11",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "fell down, and worshipped him",
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      "reference": "Matt. 26:39",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "fell on his face, and prayed",
      "explanation": "Prostration expresses the Son's anguished submission to the Father.",
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      "reference": "Rev. 5:8",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "fell down before the Lamb",
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