Mark 5 : 43

Greek διεστείλατο ('he strictly charged/ordered') is rendered in Syriac by the root p-q-d ('to command/appoint'), the same verb also doing duty for the conjunction prefix ܘ-; the Vulgate præcepit likewise opts for a verb of commanding. All three converge on the sense of an emphatic injunction, but the Greek middle of διαστέλλω carries a nuance of 'distinctly setting forth' not fully captured by the simpler Syriac and Latin command-verbs.

Greek πολλά is an adverbial accusative neuter plural ('much, strictly'); the Vulgate vehementer ('vehemently, strongly') interprets it adverbially in the same emphatic direction, while Syriac ܣܓܝ ('much, greatly', root s-g-a) renders it with a generic quantitative adverb. The traditions agree on intensification but differ in the precise adverbial shading.

Greek μηδείς is a single negative pronoun ('no one'); Syriac analyses it into the negator ܕܠܐ plus the indefinite ܐܢܫ ('that not... anyone'), an idiomatic Semitic decomposition of the negative pronoun, while the Vulgate nemo matches the Greek synthetic form. The split of one Greek token across two Syriac tokens is purely structural.

The Vulgate inserts a colon before the second clause (et dixit), marking the syntactic break between the command to secrecy and the instruction to feed the girl. Neither the Greek nor the Syriac transmit a corresponding punctuation token here, the Greek using only a comma after τοῦτο.

Greek δοθῆναι is an aorist passive infinitive ('to be given') governed impersonally by εἶπεν, and the Vulgate dari mirrors this with a passive infinitive; the Syriac ܕܢܬܠܘܢ recasts the construction actively as a finite subjunctive with an indefinite third-plural subject ('that they should give'), a typical Syriac avoidance of the impersonal passive (construction divergence).