Mark 6 : 48

Greek βασανιζομένους ('being tormented/straining') is a vivid passive; Latin laborantes ('labouring') softens to physical exertion, while Syriac ܕܡܫܬܢܩܝܢ (root th-n-q, 'being distressed/tortured') preserves the connotation of suffering closer to the Greek.

Greek expresses the action with an articular infinitive ἐν τῷ ἐλαύνειν ('in the rowing'), matched by the Latin gerund in remigando; Syriac instead uses a temporal clause ܟܕ ܪܕܝܢ ('while they were driving/sailing'), a construction-level difference conveying the same durative sense.

Greek and Latin both supply the article/noun ὁ ἄνεμος / ventus ('the wind'); Syriac ܪܘܚܐ is anarthrous but contextually definite, a normal feature of Syriac which lacks a definite article in this construction.

Greek ἐναντίος and Latin contrarius are predicate adjectives ('contrary'); the Peshitta renders the idea adverbially with the prepositional phrase ܠܘܩܒܠܗܘܢ ('against them'), a construction-level rather than lexical divergence.

The dative αὐτοῖς and Latin eis ('to/against them') are expressed by the pronominal suffix on the Syriac prepositional form ܠܘܩܒܠܗܘܢ, which already incorporates the 3mp object.

The connective καί / et resuming the main narrative after the parenthetical clause has no separate equivalent in the Peshitta, which proceeds asyndetically to the new clause; a minor stylistic omission.

Greek περί and Latin circa ('about, around [the hour]') express approximation; the Syriac prefixes the preposition ܒ ('in/at') to ܡܛܪܬܐ without the nuance of approximation, a minor temporal-construction difference.

Greek uses the historic present ἔρχεται ('he comes') for dramatic effect; both the Latin perfect venit and the Syriac perfect ܐܬܐ flatten this to past narration, a tense-level (grammar) divergence common in the versions.

The Peshitta explicitly supplies the subject ܝܫܘܥ ('Jesus'), which is only implicit in the third-person verb of the Greek and Latin; a clarifying expansion typical of the Syriac tradition.

Greek περιπατῶν and Latin ambulans are circumstantial participles ('walking'); the Syriac renders this with a temporal clause ܟܕ ܡܗܠܟ ('while he was walking'), a construction-level paraphrase of the participle.

Greek ἐπὶ τῆς θαλάσσης and Latin supra mare both read 'on/over the sea'; the Syriac ܥܠ ܡܝܐ ('upon the waters') substitutes the generic ܡܝܐ ('waters') for 'sea', a lexical shift to the broader term for the body of water.

The Vulgate inserts a colon dividing the clause of Jesus' approach from his intention to pass by; neither the Greek nor Syriac marks this break, which here functions as editorial punctuation.

Greek imperfect ἤθελεν and Latin volebat ('he was wishing') are single forms; the Syriac uses the periphrastic ܘܨܒܐ ܗܘܐ (perfect + enclitic ܗܘܐ) to express the durative past 'he was wanting', an equivalent aspectual construction.

Greek παρελθεῖν ('to pass by') is rendered by the Syriac infinitive ܕܢܥܒܪ (root e-b-r, 'to cross/pass over') and Latin præterire; the Syriac root carries a slightly stronger sense of passing across, a near-synonymous lexical choice.