Mark 6 : 38

Greek and Syriac both supply the resumptive subject pronoun (ὁ / ܗܘ, 'he'), foregrounding the change of speaker; the Vulgate omits an explicit subject, relying on the third-singular verb dicit to carry the subject — a typical Latin economy.

The Greek postpositive δέ and the Syriac postpositive ܕܝܢ are mildly adversative connectives ('but/and'); the Vulgate renders the connective with the prepositive coordinating Et, neutralising the contrastive nuance.

The interrogative clause 'how many loaves have you?' is reordered across traditions: Greek fronts the interrogative-object cluster (πόσους ἄρτους ἔχετε), the Vulgate mirrors this (Quot panes habetis), while the Syriac inverts to verb-final order with the existential ܐܝܬ ܠܟܘܢ ('there is to you'), an idiomatic Aramaic possessive construction lacking a finite 'have'.

Greek (καὶ) and Latin (et) coordinate the two imperatives 'go and see'; the Syriac juxtaposes the imperatives ܙܠܘ ܚܙܘ asyndetically without a conjunction, a common Semitic serial-verb pattern.

Greek uses a coordinated aorist participle (καὶ γνόντες, 'and having ascertained'); the Vulgate renders this with a temporal cum-clause plus pluperfect subjunctive (Et cum cognovissent); the Syriac employs ܘܟܕ ܚܙܘ ('and when they saw'), reusing the verb 'see' (ḥ-z-y) rather than a verb of knowing — a lexical shift from γινώσκω.

The Peshitta repeats the noun ܠܚܡܝܢ ('loaves') after the numeral 'five', making the elliptical answer explicit ('five loaves'); the Greek (πέντε) and Vulgate (Quinque) leave the noun gapped, recoverable from the question.

The numeral 'two' is carried in the Syriac by the single fused form ܘܬܪܝܢ, which incorporates the conjunction waw ('and two'); the Greek (δύο) and Latin (duos) express conjunction and numeral as separate tokens.