17 more individual letter pairs that don't begin any roots

 I have been examining paired letter patterns in Hebrew roots. The previous two posts have dealt with vav and tet, the two letters that account for 20 of the 37 individual letter pairs that are not used in the first two letters of any roots. We also saw the 20 pairs (e.g. bp pb) of individual letter pairs that are rarely if ever used (except where a letter of the pair is used grammatically as a prefix or suffix letter).

The 17 remaining single letter pairs are: gs, ds, dx, hz, zw, / ka, kh, lz, ln, ls, / lx, sw, pm, xw, qz, / qk, ts

The reverse of each of these two letters is used as the first letter of some roots (they too may be rare but they are non-zero).

So are any of the above 17 sequences used at all in Hebrew phonation? 

gs - 0, ds - 10 - looks like two borrowed words and a name showing Song and Qohelet as having words of late origin.

prds		prds	פרדס are a paradise of Song 4:13
prds		uprdsim	ופרדסים and orchards Qohelet 2:5
hdsh		-hdsh	הדסה Hadassah Esther 2:7
hds		hhdsim	ההדסים the myrtle Zechariah 1:8
hds		hds	הדס a myrtle Isaiah 55:13
hds		vhds	והדס and myrtle Isaiah 41:19
prds		hprds	הפרדס the paradise Nehemiah 2:8
hds		hds	הדס myrtle Nehemiah 8:15

hz 0 in roots but many where h is acting as part of a prefix.

zw - 0, ka (107) mostly the infamous Ahab, and a few for the gloss clap perhaps showing that Psalms 98 is contemporary with Second Isaiah. The one instance with wind is the Aramaic grammatical use of aleph as the definite article.

mka		imkau	ימחאו clap Psalms 98:8
akab		akab	אחאב Ahab 2 Kings 1:1
ivka		vioka	ויחא and Joha 1 Chronicles 11:45
rvk		ruka	רוחא the wind Daniel 2:35
xika		-xika	ציחא Tsixa Ezra 2:43
plka		plka	פלחא Pilexa Nehemiah 10:25

kh (1,317) - frequent as the last letter of a word and occasionally of a root. What do we make of this 'final h'? It is sometimes the suffix indicating direction - towards.

prk		hprkh	הפרחה the flourishing of Song 6:11
mwpkh		-hmwpkh	המשפחה the families Amos 3:1
mnkh		umnkoticm	ומנחתיכם and your gifts Amos 5:22
+pk		'tipkh	טפחה cloaked Isaiah 48:13
xlk		vhxlikh	והצליחה and prosper Nehemiah 1:11
mnkh		umnkthon	ומנחתהון and their gifts Ezra 7:17
wlk		vawlkh	ואשלחה and I sent Nehemiah 6:8
nkh		hnkitm	הנחיתם you guided them Nehemiah 9:12
mnkh		-hmnkh	המנחה the gift Nehemiah 13:9
wkh		lhwtkvot	להשתחות to worship 1 Samuel 1:3
pkh		pkot	פחות viceroys Jeremiah 51:23
zrk		mzrkh	מזרחה toward the sunrise Jeremiah 31:40
xmk		xmkh	צמחה the growth Psalms 65:11

lz (211)

zbk		lzbok	לזבח to sacrifice 1 Kings 3:4
ylz		aylozh	אעלזה I will exult Psalms 60:8
zry		ulzryç	ולזרעך and to your seed Numbers 18:19
zat		lzat	לזאת this one Genesis 2:23
zh		hlzh	הלזה this Genesis 24:65
zry		lzryç	לזרעך to your seed Genesis 24:7
znh		lznunim	לזנונים from harlotry Genesis 38:24

ln (86) including one side of the phrase ploni almoni, an old idiom? used only three times - not always politely.

clnh		clnh	כלנה Kalneh Amos 6:2
zbln		zbulun	זבלון Zebulun Psalms 68:28
plni		ploni	פלני what a Ruth 4:1
kln		-kilon	חלן Helon Numbers 1:9
wlni		hwlni	השלני the Shelanites Numbers 26:20
gvln		-goln	גולן Golan Deuteronomy 4:43
gilni		hgiloni	הגילני the Gilonite 2 Samuel 15:12
plni		ploni	פלני suitable 1 Samuel 21:3
plni		ploni	פלני suitable 2 Kings 6:8

ls (23) for roots, (92) if we include the use of l as a prefix.

bls		ubols	ובולס a tender of Amos 7:14
pls		tplsun	תפלסון you level out Psalms 58:3
qls		vqls	וקלס and ridicule Psalms 44:14
yls		nylsh	נעלסה a peacock thrilled Job 39:13
alsr		alsr	אלסר Eliasar Genesis 14:1

lx is also used for the grammatical role of l (179) and for letters of roots after the first (89 of the 179).

klx		iiklxun	יחלצון may be rescued Psalms 60:7
plx		plxut	פלצות tremors Psalms 55:6
ylx		iylxu	יעלצו they will be elated Psalms 68:4
klx		aklxç	אחלצך I will rescue you Psalms 50:15
klx		vklxni	וחלצני and rescue me Psalms 119:153
mlx		-nmlxu	נמלצו gratifying Psalms 119:103

sw (0), pm (65) including those times when m is a suffix. 10 roots end in pm - but only names.

+np		a'tnpm	אטנפם should I soil them Song 5:3
ap		apm	אפם their anger Psalms 124:3
rdp		rodpm	רדפם their persecutor Psalms 35:6
wpm		vwpm	ושפם and Shepham 1 Chronicles 5:12
wpvpm		lwpupm	לשפופם of Shpupham Numbers 26:39
wpvpmi		hwupmi	השופמי the Shpuphamites Numbers 26:39
kvpm		lkupm	לחופם of Xupam Numbers 26:39
kvpmi		hkupmi	החופמי the Xupamites Numbers 26:39

xw (0), qz (0), qk (1,050)

wlk		viqku	ויקחו and they sent for Genesis 37:31
pqk		piqkim	פקחים the sighted Exodus 23:8
lqk		lqok	לקוח take Ezekiel 24:5
rqk		hmrqkh	המרקחה its perfume Ezekiel 24:10

ts (1) root (84) with grammatical usage.

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str		tstirni	תסתירני you will hide me Psalms 64:3
str		tstir	תסתיר is hidden Psalms 44:25
spr		tspru	תספרו you may recount it Psalms 48:14
smc		tsmcni	תסמכני support me Psalms 51:14
svr		vtsr	ותסר and she put aside Genesis 38:14
nts		ntsu	נתסו they disfigure Job 30:13