From: "Trevor & Julie Peterson" <06peterson AT cua.edu>
To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: RE: Jonah
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 16:36:41 -0500
Daladier wrote:
> In Jonah 1:2 the conjunction is used for labials, UQeRA on the contrary of
> WeQeRA. Usually this format is used to Wav, Mem, Bet e Pei. Any
> suggestions?
You've got half of the picture by watching for shureq before those
consonants. The other half is that it usually appears before any consonant
followed by shva.