Mark 1 : 23

Greek opens with καί plus the temporal adverb εὐθύς; Syriac fuses the conjunction into ܘܐܝܬ ('and there was'), a periphrastic existential construction, while Latin Et matches the Greek conjunction alone. The conjunctive force is shared but the syntactic packaging differs across the three.

Greek uses the simple imperfect ἦν ('there was'); Syriac employs the existential particle plus auxiliary ܘܐܝܬ ܗܘܐ, a two-word periphrasis common in Syriac for past existence, whereas Latin erat matches the Greek imperfect directly.

Greek expresses the locative with preposition, article, and noun (ἐν τῇ συναγωγῇ); Latin mirrors this analytically as in synagoga; Syriac compresses the whole phrase into the single inflected form ܒܟܢܘܫܬܗܘܢ, which incorporates the preposition, noun, and possessive suffix in one word.

Greek and Latin use a bare prepositional phrase (ἐν πνεύματι ἀκαθάρτῳ / in spiritu immundo, 'with/in an unclean spirit'); the Syriac recasts the description as a relative clause ܕܐܝܬ ܒܗ ܪܘܚܐ ܛܡܐܬܐ ('in whom there was an unclean spirit'), an explicitating construction that makes the man's possession by the spirit explicit.

The Clementine Vulgate inserts a colon before the following clause, marking a syntactic pause not signalled by punctuation in the unpointed Greek or Syriac source traditions. This is an editorial reading aid rather than a textual divergence.