QOF
ק
VOICELESS ADVANCED UVULAR UNASPIRATED PLOSIVE [q̟]
Tiberian Hebrew qof does not have a corresponding sound in English. It is a bit like Arabic qāf, but its place of articulation is slightly more forward in the mouth. It may help to think of where you pronounce gimal rafe גֿ [ʁ] and kaf rafe [χ], on one hand, and where you pronounce gimel with dagesh גּ [g] and kaf with dagesh [kʰ], on the other. Tiberian qof is pronounced right in between these two pairs of sounds as a hard plosive/stop sound. For those familiar with Arabic, it is pronounced similarly to the letter qāf (ق), but slightly further forward in the mouth.
[q̟]
ק
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SOURCES AND FURTHER READING
Khan, Geoffrey. 2020. The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew. Cambridge: Cambridge and Open Book Publishers. §I.1.19.