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Mark 4 : 26

EN He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

ES Decía más: Así es el reino de Dios, como si un hombre echa simiente en la tierra;

ZH-HANS 又说:「 神的国如同人把种撒在地上。

ZH-HANT 又說:「上帝的國如同人把種撒在地上。

Mark 4:25
Mark :
Mark 4:27

Critical apparatus

7 variants · 3 witnesses
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construction All three attest
Greek NT ἔλεγεν·
Peshitta ܘܐܡܪ ܗܘܐ
Vulgate dicebat

Greek uses a simple imperfect ἔλεγεν ('he was saying'); the Peshitta renders this with the periphrastic construction ܘܐܡܪ ܗܘܐ (verb + auxiliary ܗܘܐ), the standard Syriac means of expressing durative or habitual past action, while the Vulgate dicebat preserves the simple imperfect.

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construction All three attest
Greek NT ἐστὶν
Peshitta ܗܝ
Vulgate regnum

Greek ἐστὶν and Latin est are finite copulas; the Peshitta uses the enclitic pronoun ܗܝ functioning as a copula, a regular Syriac idiom in nominal sentences that expresses 'is' without a true verb.

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construction All three attest
Greek NT ἡ βασιλεία
Peshitta ܡܠܟܘܬܐ
Vulgate Dei

Greek marks the definite subject with the article ἡ βασιλεία; Syriac ܡܠܟܘܬܐ carries the emphatic state ending (-ā) inherently signaling definiteness, and the Vulgate regnum lacks any article since Latin has none, all expressing the same definite subject.

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construction All three attest
Greek NT ὡς ἐὰν
Peshitta ܐܝܟ
Vulgate si homo

Greek combines the comparative particle ὡς with the conditional ἐάν ('as if'), and the Vulgate likewise renders quemadmodum si; the Peshitta condenses this to the single comparative particle ܐܝܟ ('like, as'), the conditional nuance being absorbed into the following verbal prefix.

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construction All three attest
Greek NT βάλῃ
Peshitta ܕܢܪܡܐ
Vulgate sementem

Greek βάλῃ ('shall cast') and Latin jaciat are aorist/present subjunctives within the comparative clause; the Peshitta ܕܢܪܡܐ uses the relative-conditional particle ܕ- prefixed to the imperfect, the standard Syriac construction following ܐܝܟ, expressing the same hypothetical action.

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construction All three attest
Greek NT τὸν σπόρον
Peshitta ܙܪܥܐ
Vulgate in

Greek τὸν σπόρον and Latin sementem denote 'the seed/sowing' with grammatical definiteness (article) or specificity; the Peshitta ܙܪܥܐ in the emphatic state conveys the definite 'the seed,' all from the common Semitic-Greek agricultural lexicon of sowing.

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Greek NT ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς
Peshitta ܒܐܪܥܐ
Vulgate terram

Greek uses the preposition ἐπί + genitive with article (ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, 'upon the earth') and Latin in + accusative (in terram); the Peshitta compresses this to the single inflected form ܒܐܪܥܐ (preposition ܒ- + emphatic noun), a typical Syriac economy fusing preposition and definite noun.