Mark 12 : 27

Greek negates the copula (οὐκ ἔστιν, 'he is not'); the Peshitta employs the negative particle with the verb ܗܘܐ (ܘܠܐ ܗܘܐ, 'and he is not/was not'), opening with the conjunction ܘ ('and') absent in both Greek and Latin. The Vulgate Non est mirrors the Greek closely without the connective.

Greek carries the definite article ὁ θεός marking 'the God'; both the Syriac ܐܠܗܐ (with the inherent emphatic state) and the Latin Deus render the noun without a separate article, the determinacy being conveyed grammatically rather than lexically.

The Greek repeats θεός in the second clause (ἀλλὰ θεὸς ζώντων, 'but God of [the] living'); both the Peshitta and the Vulgate elide the second occurrence, supplying only the genitive object (ܕܚܝܐ / vivorum) and leaving 'God' to be understood from the prior clause.

Greek expresses the verb synthetically as a single passive form (πλανᾶσθε, 'you are deceived/err'), matched by the Latin erratis; the Syriac uses the periphrastic enclitic construction ܛܥܝܢ ܐܢܬܘܢ (participle plus the pronominal enclitic ܐܢܬܘܢ), a routine Syriac means of conjugating the present-imperfective with explicit pronominal subject.