Mark 5 : 5

Greek orders 'night and day' (νυκτὸς καὶ ἡμέρας); Peshitta mirrors this with ܒܠܠܝܐ ܘܒܐܝܡܡܐ; Vulgate inverts to 'day and night' (die ac nocte), a stylistic preference common in Latin prose.

Greek uses the prepositional phrase ἐν τοῖς μνήμασιν ('in the tombs') with definite article; Peshitta employs the construct state ܒܒܝܬ ܩܒܘܪܐ ('in house-of burial'); Vulgate uses in monumentis ('in monuments'). The Peshitta's construct phrase is a typical Semitic idiom for expressing possession or association.

Greek and Vulgate use the plural (ἐν τοῖς ὄρεσιν / in montibus, 'in the mountains'); Peshitta uses the singular ܘܒܛܘܪܐ ('and in the mountain'), a typical Syriac idiom for geographic mass nouns where singular form conveys collective meaning.

Greek uses the simple imperfect ἦν ('he was'); Peshitta employs the periphrastic construction ܐܝܬܘܗܝ ܗܘܐ (literally 'he-was being'), a common Syriac way of expressing continuous past action; Vulgate uses erat ('he was'), matching the Greek structure.

Greek uses the present participle κράζων ('crying out') with the imperfect ἦν to form a periphrastic construction; Peshitta uses ܘܩܥܐ ܗܘܐ ('and he-was crying'), employing the active participle with auxiliary; Vulgate uses the present participle clamans, matching Greek syntax.

Greek κατακόπτων means 'cutting' or 'gashing'; Peshitta ܡܨܠܦ carries the sense of 'wounding' or 'lacerating'; Vulgate concidens means 'cutting' or 'striking'. All three are cognate terms expressing self-harm but with slightly different semantic ranges.