Jonah 4:7-8

4:7 So God sent ¹  a worm at dawn the next day, and it attacked the little plant so that it dried up. 4:8 When the sun began to shine, God sent ²  a hot ³  east wind. So the sun beat down ⁴  on Jonah’s head, and he grew faint. So he despaired of life, ⁵  and said, “I would rather die than live!” ⁶ 

[4:7]  ¹ tn Or “appointed.” The verb מָנָה (manah) in the Piel stem means “to send, to appoint” (Ps 61:8; Jonah 2:1; 4:6-8; Dan 1:5, 10-11; HALOT 599 s.v. מנה 2; BDB 584 s.v. מָנָה).

[4:8]  ² tn Or “appointed.” See preceding note on v. 7.

[4:8]  ³ tc The MT adjective חֲרִישִׁית (kharishit, “autumnal”) is a hapax legomenon with an unclear meaning (BDB 362 s.v. חֲרִישִׁי); therefore, the BHS editors propose a conjectural emendation to the adjective חֲרִיפִית (kharifit, “autumnal”) from the noun חֹרֶף (khoref, “autumn”; see BDB 358 s.v. חרֶף). However, this emendation would also create a hapax legomenon and it would be no more clear than relating the MT’s חֲרִישִׁית to I חָרַשׁ (kharash, “to plough” [in autumn harvest]).

[4:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “attacked” or “smote.”

[4:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “he asked his soul to die.”

[4:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “better my death than my life.”