The question is whether we expect catalogers to know these grammatical minutiae…
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When the beged-kefet letter is not at the beginning of a syllable, or, if it’s 
followed by any vowel (not just a long vowel), and in this case by the vowel 
which ends the first word of the construct), it loses its dagesh kal. Jasmin, 
In your

When the beged-kefet letter is not at the beginning of a syllable, or, if it’s 
followed by any vowel (not just a long vowel), and in this case by the vowel 
which ends the first word of the construct), it loses its dagesh kal.  Jasmin, 
In your examples, the “yod” at the end of שפתי, and the “hay” at the end of 
מראה, are not considered consonants, so the last vowels of each word do 
immediately precede the beged-kefet letter of the second word.


best, Heidi


Heidi G. Lerner

Metadata Librarian for Hebraica and Judaica Emerita, Stanford University 
Libraries

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