Mark 5 : 31

Greek and Latin use the imperfect (ἔλεγον, dicebant, 'were saying'), conveying iterative or durative aspect; the Syriac participle ܐܡܪܝܢ also functions as a narrative present-continuous, but the verb is fused with the conjunction ܘ- (already aligned above), so only its semantic content corresponds here.

Greek expresses the subject with article + noun + genitive pronoun (οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ) and Latin with noun + possessive (discipuli sui); Syriac compresses the whole phrase into a single inflected noun ܬܠܡܝܕܘܗܝ bearing the third-person possessive suffix, a typical Syriac morphological economy.

Greek βλέπεις and Latin Vides are synthetic second-person forms; Syriac renders the present with a participle plus the independent enclitic pronoun ܚܙܐ ܐܢܬ ('seeing [are] you'), the standard analytic construction for the present tense in Syriac.

Greek and Latin use a participle (συνθλίβοντά, comprimentem, 'pressing upon'); Syriac employs a relative clause ܕܚܒܨܝܢ ('who are pressing'), with the verb in the plural agreeing notionally with the collective ܟܢܫܐ rather than the singular noun, reflecting Syriac constructio ad sensum.

Greek λέγεις and Latin dicis are synthetic; Syriac again uses the analytic participle + enclitic pronoun ܐܡܪ ܐܢܬ ('saying [are] you'), with the conjunction prefixed to the verb already counted in the previous group.

Greek ἥψατο is a middle aorist ('touched me'); Syriac uses the perfect of the root q-r-b ('drew near to, approached'), a cognate-sense rendering that emphasises proximity over physical contact, while Latin tetigit ('touched') matches the Greek lexeme more closely.

The Clementine Vulgate inserts editorial colons before the two reported-speech clauses (after sui and after dicis); these punctuation marks have no token equivalents in the Greek or Syriac and serve only to mark direct discourse.