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    "figure_name": "Plow, Furrow, and Broken-Ground Imagery",
    "technical_name": "Plow, furrow, fallow ground, broken soil, and field-preparation imagery",
    "alternate_names": "plow imagery; furrow imagery; fallow-ground imagery; broken-ground imagery; field-preparation imagery",
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    "reader_category": "Labor, repentance, preparation, judgment, and disciplined hope / Plow imagery",
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    "simple_definition": "Plow and furrow imagery uses the breaking of ground to picture preparation, repentance, painful affliction, disciplined labor, and hope for later fruit.",
    "technical_definition": "An agricultural-preparation motif in which plowing, furrows, fallow ground, or the hand on the plow signifies moral readiness, covenant repentance, labor under hope, violent oppression, or the irreversible demand of discipleship.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 36 draft-normalized labor/trade/measures/workshop imagery review; distinguish this from broad Sowing and Seed-Field Imagery by focusing on ground-breaking, furrows, and plow labor.",
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      "reference": "1 Kgs. 19:19",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "plowing with twelve yoke of oxen",
      "explanation": "Elisha is called from plow labor, showing ordinary work interrupted by prophetic vocation.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "they that plow iniquity",
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      "reference": "Isa. 28:24",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Doth the plowman plow all day to sow?",
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      "reference": "Jer. 4:3",
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      "reference": "Hos. 10:12",
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      "reference": "Hos. 10:13",
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