Mark 8 : 14

The Syriac fuses the conjunction and verb into a single inflected form ܘܛܥܘ ('and they forgot'), while the Vulgate renders the Greek aorist deponent with a periphrastic perfect passive (obliti sunt); these are morphological packaging differences with no semantic divergence.

Greek has the plural ἄρτους ('loaves'); both the Syriac ܠܚܡܐ (used as a collective/generic for bread) and the Latin panes attest, but the Syriac noun functions idiomatically as a mass-noun rather than a marked plural.

The Clementine Vulgate inserts a colon after sumere to mark the syntactic break before the parenthetical clause; neither the Greek nor the Syriac transmit punctuation here, and the editorial mark slightly alters the rhetorical pacing.

Greek expresses the exceptive clause with the two-word idiom εἰ μή ('except'); both the Syriac ܐܠܐ (embedded in ܘܐܠܐ) and the Latin nisi render this with a single lexeme, a routine syntactic compression of the Greek conditional-negative construction.

Greek ἄρτον ('loaf') and Latin panem are generic; the Syriac ܓܪܝܨܬܐ specifies a single flat cake or round loaf of bread (root g-r-ts), a more concrete lexical choice reflecting the local realia of baking.

Greek uses the imperfect οὐκ εἶχον ('they were not having'); the Syriac employs the existential particle ܠܝܬ with the auxiliary ܗܘܐ ('there was not [with them]'), an idiomatic possessive-existential construction, whereas the Vulgate non habebant mirrors the Greek verbal possession directly.

Greek uses preposition plus article plus dative ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ and Latin uses in navi; the Syriac compresses preposition and noun into the single prefixed form ܒܣܦܝܢܬܐ, and notably none of the versions require the definite article to be lexically separated as in Greek.