Mark 8 : 12

Greek ἀναστενάξας ('having sighed deeply') and Latin ingemiscens ('groaning') both denote audible distress, but the Peshitta ܘܐܬܬܢܚ ('and he sighed/groaned') is conflated with the conjunction, reflecting a single Syriac verb form where Greek uses a participle.

Greek employs the dative construction τῷ πνεύματι αὐτοῦ ('in his spirit') with article and possessive pronoun; Latin uses the ablative spiritu without article or possessive; Syriac ܒܪܘܚܗ ('in his spirit') mirrors the Greek structure with pronominal suffix but lacks the article, a typical Semitic pattern.

Greek λέγει has an embedded punctuation mark (·); Vulgate separates ait from the following question with a colon (:); Peshitta ܘܐܡܪ ('and he said') continues without punctuation, reflecting different scribal conventions for introducing direct speech.

Greek σημεῖον appears at the end of the question with a semicolon; Vulgate places signum before the verb quærit and closes with a question mark (?); Peshitta front-loads ܐܬܐ ('sign') at the beginning of the clause (already aligned above), reflecting typical Syriac topicalization of the direct object.

Greek ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν ('Amen I say to you') and Latin Amen dico vobis are structurally identical; Peshitta ܐܡܝܢ ܐܡܪ ܐܢܐ ܠܟܘܢ ('Amen say I to you') adds the independent pronoun ܐܢܐ ('I') for emphasis, a common Syriac stylistic feature when the subject is already marked on the verb.

Greek εἰ functions as a Hebraic oath formula meaning 'surely not' (elliptical negative oath); Latin si dabitur preserves the conditional 'if' but loses the idiomatic force; Peshitta ܕܠܐ ('that not') makes the negation explicit with the negative particle ܠܐ, transforming the elliptical oath into a direct negative statement ('that there will not be given'), a clarifying interpretive rendering.

Greek τῇ γενεᾷ ταύτῃ ('to this generation') uses dative case with article and postpositive demonstrative; Latin generationi isti mirrors this with dative and demonstrative; Peshitta ܠܗ ܐܬܐ ܠܫܪܒܬܐ ܗܕܐ ('to it sign to generation this') inserts the resumptive pronoun ܠܗ ('to it') before repeating ܐܬܐ ('sign') and ܠܫܪܒܬܐ ܗܕܐ ('to this generation'), a Semitic double-marking construction for emphasis and clarity.