Thanks to everyone for the interesting discussion.No, this is not correct. Both words have qamats in the absolute state, and sheva in the construct state or with a personal suffix. This is the regular pattern of alternation for bisyllabic nouns with qamats in the first syllable. In fact I don't think the construct of "liver" is found in the Hebrew Bible, but the word is found with a personal suffix in Proverbs 7:23, Lamentations 2:11. "Glory" occurs with qamats and defective holam in Genesis 31:1 and Nahum 2:10. Data courtesy of BDB, checked with BHS.
OK, I got the *defective* holem vav part. What about the qamats though. Liver is spelled with a qamets under the kaf and glory has a shewa under the kaf. In each of the four cases where the defective holem vav occured in *glory*
, the shewa replaced the qamets, which was part of my confusion on issue.
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