Footnote

“Feeling of dejection.” Gr., sphe·kiʹas; Lat., cra·broʹnes, “hornets.” Koehler’s Kleine Lichter, Zurich, 1945, shows that the Heb. word hats·tsir·ʽahʹ corresponds with the Arabic word that means “dejectedness; discouragement; abasement.” But in the past, scholars have understood the Heb. word as a metaphor to designate “ills and calamities.” See De 7:20 and Jos 24:12, the only other places this expression occurs in M.