Mark 9 : 34

Greek postpositive δέ and Syriac ܕܝܢ are adversative connectives; the Vulgate opens with the adversative At, fronting the conjunction to clause-initial position per Latin syntactic norms rather than the postpositive placement of the source.

Greek uses the imperfect ἐσιώπων to express durative past silence; Syriac renders this periphrastically with the participle ܫܬܝܩܝܢ plus the auxiliary ܗܘܘ, a standard Syriac construction for continuous past action that the single Latin imperfect tacebant compresses.

Greek expresses reciprocity with πρὸς ἀλλήλους + the aorist διελέχθησαν, and Latin with inter se disputaverunt; Syriac employs the distributive idiom ܚܕ ܥܡ ܚܕ ('one with one') alongside the verb ܐܬܚܪܝܘ ('they disputed') with periphrastic ܗܘܘ, the characteristic Semitic reciprocal construction.

Both the Peshitta (ܒܗܘܢ, 'among them') and the Vulgate (eorum, 'of them') add a partitive pronoun specifying the group, an explicating expansion absent from the Greek NA28 text, which leaves τίς μείζων unqualified.

The Vulgate inserts colons as syntactic punctuation marking the clause boundaries; these have no counterpart in the unpointed Greek or Syriac transmission and reflect editorial verse structuring.