[Avodah] mi k(h)mocha

[Poppers, Michael]

In Avodah V30n120, R'Micha wrote:
> Shemos 15:11...the trop matches: the first "mi-khamokha" has a maqaf connecting the
words, the "mi kamokha" does not.
> There are two other such inconsistancies in Pesuqei Dezimra -- this is based on the mesoretic text, not your siddur publisher:
> Tehillim 148:2:
    Haleluhu khol mal'akhav
    haleluhu kol  tzeva'av
> and Teh' 150:5:
    Heleluhu vetziltzelei shama
    Heleluhu betziltzelei seru'ah
> And again the trop too fits. In both cases the first iteration has a
merkha for haleluhu connecting it to the next word, and the second has a
revia-mugrash (a trop specific to sifrei Emes -- Iyov, Mishlei, Tehillim). <
"Mi kamocha" is an exception to the observed rule re elision of a dageish qal (i.e. based on the rule, it should really be "mi chamocha" -- among other satisfied criteria, the two words are connected because there's a ta'am m'shareis on the first word, not a ta'am mafsiq).  In my Hirsch T'hilim, the first "Hal'luhu" of both 148:2 and 150:5 has a d'chi [and a dageish qal in the kaf] -- no reason for elision -- but if your text has a meircha, a m'shareis, no surprise the dageish qal of the following word's first, BGDKFTh consonant is elided by rule, so I'm unsure why you refer to them as "inconsistancies," unless you're asking why different trop were used for similar phrases, for which the answer may be musical/usage regardless of whether the first "hal'luhu" in each case has a m'shareis or a mafsiq.

Regarding a pasuq found in the siddur which exhibits an exception to the dageish-qal-elision rule, I understood another example to be at the end of Minchah l'Shabbas, in "Tzidqas'cha"'s "adam uvheimah toshi'a H'" (36:7), where by rule the dageish in the 3rd word should be elided (NB: one should pause between "toshi'a" and "H'," especially as "adam uvheimah" and "toshi'a" are connected despite "toshi'a" exhibiting an exception to the elision rule)...but I see that the Hirsch T'hilim graces "uvheimah" with a r'vi'a mugrash, so if I'm being consistent in this post, I have to withdraw that example :). 

All the best from 
-- Michael Poppers via BB pager