Hello Donald,
According to Geoffrey Khan, Vowel Length and Syllable Structure in the
Tiberian Tradition of BH, "the vowels of syllables which take the main
stress of a word are always long." He gives as an example of a seghol
the word מלך in Ex 6:11 which is transcribed in Arabic as مالخ.
Yitzhak Sapir
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