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If it breaks your rules, you do not have enough rules ;-) After a vowel must always follow the soft form of the begadkefat letter, but after a consonant, usually the hard form is used, but not always, like in מַלְכֵי־ (kings of) or שַׁרְבִיט (scepter). When you combine the monoconsonantal prepositions with a noun, the onset second syllable does not change to its hard form: בְּ+דְּבָרִימ becomes בִּדְבָרִימ [bidvarim]. This phenomenon is called Sheva Medium or שווא מרחף (look it up on page 11).