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28 July 2022
Hataf patah is a Hebrew vowel symbol which looks like a shva next to a patah. In Modern Israeli Hebrew it is pronounced as a as in father, just like a regular patah or a qamats gadol.
According to Joüon-Muraoka, it is in the Tiberian Hebrew system an allophone of shva, like the other hataf vowels, hataf qamats and hataf segol.[1]