Mark 8 : 37

The Greek explanatory particle γάρ ('for') has no counterpart in either the Peshitta or the Vulgate, both of which render the rhetorical question asyndetically. Such connective particles are routinely left untranslated in the Syriac and Latin traditions when the logical connection is felt to be self-evident.

Greek δοῖ is an aorist subjunctive (a notable Hellenistic morphology, optative-like), conveying deliberative force; the Peshitta ܢܬܠ is an imperfect/future and the Vulgate dabit a simple future indicative. All three express the deliberative rhetorical question, but the mood and tense differ across the traditions.

Greek ἀντάλλαγμα and Syriac ܬܚܠܘܦܐ stand as accusative/absolute objects ('an exchange'); the Vulgate commutationis is a partitive genitive ('[something] of exchange'), a subtle Latin syntactic shift that nuances the object as 'a thing of barter' rather than the direct object 'a ransom-price.'

Greek expresses the possessor with an articular genitive phrase (τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτοῦ) and the Vulgate with a prepositional phrase plus possessive adjective (pro anima sua); the Peshitta compresses this into a single inflected form ܕܢܦܫܗ bearing a proclitic relative/genitive marker and a pronominal suffix, a typical Syriac economy of expression.