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Mark 5 : 9

EN He asked him, “What is your name?” He said to him, “My name is Legion, for we are many.”

ES Y le preguntó: ¿Cómo te llamas? Y respondió diciendo: Legión me llamo; porque somos muchos.

ZH-HANS 耶稣问他说:「你名叫什么?」回答说:「我名叫『群』,因为我们多的缘故」;

ZH-HANT 耶穌問他說:「你名叫甚麼?」回答說:「我名叫『群』,因為我們多的緣故」;

Mark 5:8
Mark :
Mark 5:10

Critical apparatus

6 variants · 3 witnesses
𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
construction All three attest
Greek NT Καὶ
Peshitta ܘܫܐܠܗ
Vulgate Et

The Greek coordinates with καί + finite verb and a separate accusative pronoun, whereas the Syriac ܘܫܐܠܗ fuses conjunction, verb, and the 3ms object suffix into a single word, a typical Semitic morphological economy. The Vulgate Et interrogabat preserves the discrete coordination of the Greek.

𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
punctuation Two witnesses
Greek NT αὐτόν·
Vulgate eum Quod

The Greek pronoun αὐτόν carries the raised dot (·) marking the introduction of direct speech; the Vulgate distributes the same function across the pronoun eum and the following colon, a difference of editorial punctuation rather than text.

𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
construction All three attest
Greek NT τί ὄνομά σοι;
Peshitta ܐܝܟܢܐ ܫܡܟ
Vulgate tibi nomen est Et

Greek frames the question with the interrogative τί + ὄνομα + dative σοι ('what [is] name to you'); the Vulgate adds the explicit copula est (Quod tibi nomen est) and the Syriac compresses to ܐܝܟܢܐ ܫܡܟ, where the interrogative ܐܝܟܢܐ tends toward 'how/what' and the possessive is expressed by the suffix on ܫܡܟ rather than an independent pronoun.

𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
omission Greek NT only
Greek NT καὶ ἀπεκρίθη

The Greek doublet καὶ ἀπεκρίθη λέγει ('and he answered, he says') is a characteristically Markan pleonasm; both the Peshitta and the Vulgate omit the verb of answering and retain only the verb of speaking, smoothing the redundancy.

𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
punctuation All three attest
Greek NT αὐτῷ·
Peshitta ܠܗ
Vulgate mihi nomen

The dative pronoun αὐτῷ / ܠܗ / ei marks the addressee identically; the Vulgate appends a colon (index 12) to introduce the reported speech, an editorial division absent as a discrete token in Greek and Syriac.

𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
construction All three attest
Greek NT ὄνομά μοι
Peshitta ܫܡܢ
Vulgate quia multi sumus

Greek expresses 'name to me' with noun ὄνομά plus the separate dative μοι; the Syriac collapses both into the single suffixed form ܫܡܢ (here a 1st-person possessive), while the Vulgate expands fully with mihi nomen est, supplying the copula. The constructions are semantically equivalent verbless/copular predications.