Mark 6 : 29

Greek uses conjunction καὶ plus aorist participle ἀκούσαντες ('and having heard'); Peshitta employs simple perfect ܘܫܡܥܘ ('and they heard'); Vulgate uses ablative absolute Quo audito ('which having been heard'). All three express temporal anteriority but through different syntactic strategies.

Greek places the article and noun before the possessive pronoun (οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ); Peshitta uses a bound form with pronominal suffix ܬܠܡܝܕܘܗܝ ('his-disciples'), a standard Semitic construction; Vulgate follows Greek word order (discipuli ejus). Semantically identical despite structural differences.

Greek uses πτῶμα ('corpse, fallen body'), emphasizing the violent death; Peshitta employs ܫܠܕܗ ('his body/corpse'); Vulgate uses corpus ('body'). The Greek term is more specific to a body resulting from violent death, while the Syriac and Latin terms are more neutral, though all refer to John the Baptist's remains.

Vulgate inserts a colon after corpus ejus, creating a stronger pause before the burial clause. Neither Greek nor Peshitta manuscripts indicate such punctuation at this juncture, maintaining continuous narrative flow with simple conjunction.

Greek uses preposition ἐν with dative article and noun (ἐν τῷ μνημείῳ, 'in the tomb'); Peshitta employs the compound preposition ܒܒܝܬ ܩܒܘܪܐ (literally 'in house-of burial'), a characteristic Semitic construct-state formation; Vulgate uses in monumento. The Peshitta's periphrastic construction is idiomatic but semantically equivalent to the Greek and Latin prepositional phrases.