As DM footnote 20 mentions, this is one of three such cases, the other two being 9:35 and 27:9. In all three cases, the consensus has געיה on an initial vocal שווא notated as a חטף פתח. In μL, the געיה is on an initial פתח, a full (albeit short) syllable rather than a שווא.

In this case, μY agrees with μL against μA: the פתח in μY is a full פתח, not a חטף פתח. As for the two other similar cases, note that μY also agrees with μL against μA in 27:9 (to the extent that the μY image permits such a judgement) but μY agrees with μA against μL in 9:35.

It is perhaps significant that the cases here and in 27:9, the cases of likely μY/μL agreement, concern an initial ה whereas 9:35 concerns an initial א. Although for many purposes all four gutturals behave the same, this may be one of those cases where this is not true.

U — M — μL (page 407A, col 1, line 16):

μA (Aleppo) (page 279r, col 2, line 11, word 6):

μY (Cambridge 1753) (page 82B, col 2, line 7, word 4):

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