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Compare Ibn Ezra's Tsaxut which states:
And the noted scholar (Hayyuj) said that the Tiberians would read the
mobile schewa if a yod follows, with the vowel of hiriq as in יֶחְזְיָהוּ
(yɛxziyɔhu) יִרְמְיָהוּ (yirmiyɔhu) ...
... and the schewa which is followed by a bigDoesn't the last part of this imply that the qamats gadol in words like בְּרָכָה שְׁמָרִים (your barɔkɔ, $amɔrim) is closer to a hataf patax than to a hataf qamats, therefore that it is more of an "a" than an "o" and different in quality from qamats qatan?
qamats (ie, qamats) as in בְּרָכָה שְׁמָרִים as a hataf patax
(=barɔkɔ, $amɔrim)
that is, a schewa with a patax, and if after the mobile schewa there is one
of the letters alef,het,het,ayin which are the guttural letters, the schewa is
always as the vowel which follows such as (2 Kings 10:10) דְעוּ אפוא the
dalet is to be read as a shuruq ("du(u") and in the word דְּעִי as if
it is with
a hiriq ("di(i") and in דְּעֶה as if it is with a small patax (ie, segol).
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