{
  "schema_version": "figures_of_speech_source_sidecar_preview_v1",
  "source_note": "Generated from final CSV/JSON source state for verification and future builder input. This is not verified against any pre-existing live-site sidecar schema.",
  "figure": {
    "figure_id": "FOS_0423",
    "figure_name": "Millstone, Grinding, and Daily-Bread Labor Imagery",
    "technical_name": "Millstone, hand mill, grinding grain, household bread labor, and silenced-mill imagery",
    "alternate_names": "millstone imagery; grinding imagery; hand-mill imagery; bread-labor imagery; mill voice imagery",
    "page_slug": "millstone-grinding-and-daily-bread-labor-imagery",
    "reader_category": "Daily labor, servitude, judgment, stumbling, and household life / Millstone imagery",
    "bullinger_class": "Supplemental biblical imagery form",
    "simple_definition": "Millstone imagery uses grinding grain and the sound of the mill to picture daily provision, hard servitude, crushing judgment, or the disappearance of ordinary household life.",
    "technical_definition": "A household-labor motif in which millstones, grinding, or the voice of the mill represent bread-making, domestic continuity, enslaved labor, severe punishment, or the removal of ordinary human life under judgment.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 36 draft-normalized labor/trade/measures/workshop imagery review; distinguish this from Bread imagery by focusing on milling and grinding labor.",
    "canonical_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/figures-of-speech-in-the-bible/millstone-grinding-and-daily-bread-labor-imagery/",
    "json_sidecar_path": "/data/figures-of-speech/millstone-grinding-and-daily-bread-labor-imagery.json",
    "publication_status": "draft_normalized",
    "page_status": "draft_normalized"
  },
  "scripture_examples": [
    {
      "example_id": "EX36_0021",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0423",
      "figure_name": "Millstone, Grinding, and Daily-Bread Labor Imagery",
      "page_slug": "millstone-grinding-and-daily-bread-labor-imagery",
      "reference": "Exod. 11:5",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "unto the maidservant that is behind the mill",
      "explanation": "The mill represents the lowest household labor touched by the plague judgment.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
      "source_section": "Wave 36 labor/trade/measures/workshop imagery expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Source/context check before final publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX36_0022",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0423",
      "figure_name": "Millstone, Grinding, and Daily-Bread Labor Imagery",
      "page_slug": "millstone-grinding-and-daily-bread-labor-imagery",
      "reference": "Num. 11:8",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "ground it in mills",
      "explanation": "Manna is processed by ordinary food-preparation labor.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
      "source_section": "Wave 36 labor/trade/measures/workshop imagery expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Source/context check before final publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX36_0023",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0423",
      "figure_name": "Millstone, Grinding, and Daily-Bread Labor Imagery",
      "page_slug": "millstone-grinding-and-daily-bread-labor-imagery",
      "reference": "Judg. 16:21",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "he did grind in the prison house",
      "explanation": "Grinding becomes an image of Samson’s humiliation and forced labor.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
      "source_section": "Wave 36 labor/trade/measures/workshop imagery expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Source/context check before final publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX36_0024",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0423",
      "figure_name": "Millstone, Grinding, and Daily-Bread Labor Imagery",
      "page_slug": "millstone-grinding-and-daily-bread-labor-imagery",
      "reference": "Eccl. 12:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the sound of the grinding is low",
      "explanation": "The fading mill sound pictures bodily decline and old age.",
      "certainty": "probable",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
      "source_section": "Wave 36 labor/trade/measures/workshop imagery expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Source/context check before final publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX36_0025",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0423",
      "figure_name": "Millstone, Grinding, and Daily-Bread Labor Imagery",
      "page_slug": "millstone-grinding-and-daily-bread-labor-imagery",
      "reference": "Isa. 47:2",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Take the millstones, and grind meal",
      "explanation": "Babylon is humbled through the imagery of menial grinding labor.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
      "source_section": "Wave 36 labor/trade/measures/workshop imagery expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Source/context check before final publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX36_0026",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0423",
      "figure_name": "Millstone, Grinding, and Daily-Bread Labor Imagery",
      "page_slug": "millstone-grinding-and-daily-bread-labor-imagery",
      "reference": "Jer. 25:10",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the sound of the millstones",
      "explanation": "The loss of mill sound signifies the removal of normal life under judgment.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
      "source_section": "Wave 36 labor/trade/measures/workshop imagery expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Source/context check before final publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX36_0027",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0423",
      "figure_name": "Millstone, Grinding, and Daily-Bread Labor Imagery",
      "page_slug": "millstone-grinding-and-daily-bread-labor-imagery",
      "reference": "Matt. 18:6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "a millstone were hanged about his neck",
      "explanation": "The heavy millstone pictures terrifying judgment for causing little ones to stumble.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
      "source_section": "Wave 36 labor/trade/measures/workshop imagery expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Source/context check before final publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX36_0028",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0423",
      "figure_name": "Millstone, Grinding, and Daily-Bread Labor Imagery",
      "page_slug": "millstone-grinding-and-daily-bread-labor-imagery",
      "reference": "Matt. 24:41",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Two women shall be grinding at the mill",
      "explanation": "Grinding marks ordinary daily work interrupted by sudden judgment.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
      "source_section": "Wave 36 labor/trade/measures/workshop imagery expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Source/context check before final publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX36_0029",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0423",
      "figure_name": "Millstone, Grinding, and Daily-Bread Labor Imagery",
      "page_slug": "millstone-grinding-and-daily-bread-labor-imagery",
      "reference": "Luke 17:35",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Two women shall be grinding together",
      "explanation": "The mill scene pictures ordinary labor at the moment of final separation.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
      "source_section": "Wave 36 labor/trade/measures/workshop imagery expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Source/context check before final publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX36_0030",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0423",
      "figure_name": "Millstone, Grinding, and Daily-Bread Labor Imagery",
      "page_slug": "millstone-grinding-and-daily-bread-labor-imagery",
      "reference": "Rev. 18:22",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more",
      "explanation": "The silenced mill signifies Babylon’s final desolation.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
      "source_section": "Wave 36 labor/trade/measures/workshop imagery expansion",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Source/context check before final publication.",
      "review_status": "draft_normalized"
    }
  ],
  "canonical_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/figures-of-speech-in-the-bible/millstone-grinding-and-daily-bread-labor-imagery/",
  "json_sidecar_path": "/data/figures-of-speech/millstone-grinding-and-daily-bread-labor-imagery.json",
  "public_build": {
    "build_id": "figures_of_speech_wave46_public_pages_and_json_v1",
    "build_time_utc": "2026-05-25T16:37:54+00:00",
    "html_path": "/figures-of-speech-in-the-bible/millstone-grinding-and-daily-bread-labor-imagery/index.html",
    "source_of_truth": "Wave 46 CSV/JSON source state"
  }
}