The "word" in the above rule probably means a prosodic word so that in A
maqaf B the first letter in B wouldn't have a dagesh.
It's not a prosodic rule. It's not hard to find examples in Tanach of
the same prosody with different trope types, and, hence, different
BEGED KEFET behavior. The Masoretes invented this arbitrary
inter-word rule (and, actually, for all we know, invented the entire
BEGED KEFET rule).
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