Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

On 9/6/05, Kelton Graham wrote:
> 
> Hey is there a rule that only gutterals can have composite shewa?
> 

A few weeks ago, Yigal Levin pointed out another example of hataph 
patah.  It seems to be a regular form of that word: 

https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/b-hebrew/2005-August/025503.html

Also, note that "hataph kamats" is much more frequent and appears 
many times outside of gutturals.

So such a rule that only gutturals can have composite schwas must 
be a generalization.  

Yitzhak Sapir