Mark 6 : 44

Greek opens with the coordinating καί ('and'), whereas both the Peshitta (ܕܝܢ) and the Vulgate (autem) employ a postpositive adversative/transitional particle ('but, now'). This reflects a stylistic shift from paratactic narrative to a mild discourse-marking connective in the Syriac and Latin traditions.

Greek and Latin render the verb 'to be' with a single imperfect form (ἦσαν / Erant); the Peshitta uses a periphrastic construction ܐܝܬܝܗܘܢ ܗܘܘ (existential particle plus the auxiliary 'were'), a characteristic Syriac means of expressing the durative past, semantically equivalent.

Greek specifies the object 'the loaves' (τοὺς ἄρτους, plural) and the Peshitta retains it in the singular collective ܠܚܡܐ ('bread'); the Vulgate omits the object entirely, leaving manducaverunt absolute ('those who ate'). The Latin thus presents a shorter text at this point.

The Greek approximative adverb ὡσεί ('about, approximately') qualifying the number is absent in both the Peshitta and the Vulgate, which give the figure 'five thousand' as a flat count without the hedging particle.