Greek uses preposition + article + noun (ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ); Latin renders the prepositional phrase without an article (in deserto) as Latin lacks the definite article; Syriac compacts the entire phrase into the single prefixed form ܒܡܕܒܪܐ, with the proclitic ܒ carrying the locative sense. Semantically identical.