Mark 7 : 7

Greek uses the single adverb μάτην ('in vain'); the Vulgate renders it with the prepositional phrase in vanum, while the Peshitta employs the derived adverb ܘܣܪܝܩܐܝܬ, which additionally carries a prefixed conjunction ('and in vain'). The semantic content is identical though the syntactic realisation differs.

The Greek postpositive particle δέ and its Latin equivalent autem are not represented as a discrete token in the Peshitta; the connective force is instead absorbed into the prefixed waw on the opening adverb ܘܣܪܝܩܐܝܬ.

Greek σέβονται ('they worship/revere') and Latin colunt convey cultic reverence, whereas the Peshitta ܕܚܠܝܢ (root d-kh-l, 'they fear/revere') frames worship through the Semitic idiom of fearing God, a routine equivalence in Syriac for divine veneration.

Greek and Latin use a bare present participle (διδάσκοντες / docentes); the Peshitta makes the subordination explicit with the temporal/circumstantial particle ܟܕ ('while/as') preceding the participle ܡܠܦܝܢ, a characteristic Syriac means of rendering Greek circumstantial participles.

Greek juxtaposes διδασκαλίας and ἐντάλματα asyndetically (teachings, [namely] precepts); the Vulgate inserts the connective et ('and') before præcepta, while the Peshitta binds the two nouns into a single construct chain ܝܘܠܦܢܐ ܕܦܘܩܕܢܐ ('teachings of commandments') by means of the relative/genitive particle d-.