Mark 10 : 9

Greek employs the articular subject ὁ θεός; the Vulgate's anarthrous Deus reflects Latin's lack of a definite article, while the Syriac ܕܐܠܗܐ carries the proclitic d- (dalet) here functioning to mark the genitival/relative relationship ('whom God'), a syntactic distinction without semantic effect.

Greek συνέζευξεν ('yoked together', from the imagery of yoking draft animals) and Latin conjunxit both render the act of binding; the Syriac ܙܘܓ (root z-w-g, cognate with Hebrew זוּג and Arabic زَوْج, 'pair/spouse') emphasises matrimonial pairing rather than the yoke-metaphor, a lexical nuance peculiar to the Semitic root.

Greek χωριζέτω (root χωρίζω, 'set apart, divide') and Latin separet render a general separation, while the Syriac ܢܦܪܫ (root p-r-sh, cognate with Hebrew פָּרַשׁ, 'to separate/distinguish') is a cognate-but-distinct lexeme; the Greek terminal pilcrow (¶) and the Latin/Syriac sentence-final punctuation mark paragraph division differently across the witnesses.