Mark 6 : 41

Greek καὶ λαβών ('and having taken') uses a finite conjunction plus aorist participle; the Vulgate renders the participial idea with the ablative absolute acceptis ('with [them] taken up'); the Peshitta ܘܢܣܒ compresses both into a single waw-prefixed perfect verb. Semantically equivalent though syntactically distinct.

The Greek article τούς is matched in the Peshitta by the demonstrative ܗܢܘܢ ('those'), used as a definite/determinative marker since Syriac lacks a definite article. The Vulgate has no equivalent, as Latin likewise lacks an article.

Greek ἀναβλέψας ('having looked up') and Vulgate intuens ('gazing') both render the upward glance, but the Peshitta ܘܚܪ employs the root for 'looking/gazing' without explicit upward sense, relying on the following ܒܫܡܝܐ ('to heaven') to supply direction.

Greek and Latin use the plural object (τοὺς ἄρτους / panes, 'the loaves'); the Peshitta ܠܚܡܐ is a singular/collective noun ('the bread'), reflecting the typical Syriac idiom of treating bread as a mass-noun rather than counting individual loaves.

Greek uses the imperfect ἐδίδου ('he kept giving'), conveying durative/iterative action during the distribution; both the Peshitta perfect ܘܝܗܒ and the Vulgate perfect dedit flatten this to a simple completed action.

Greek παρατιθῶσιν is a single verb 'set before/serve'; the Vulgate analyses it as ponerent ante ('place before'), making the directional sense explicit with a preposition, while the Peshitta ܕܢܣܝܡܘܢ ('that they may set/place') uses a bare verb of placement.

The Clementine Vulgate inserts an explicit colon here, articulating the narrative pause before the concluding clause about the fish. Neither the Greek nor the Peshitta marks this break with separate punctuation.

Greek marks 'the two fish' with the article τούς; the Peshitta supplies the demonstrative ܗܢܘܢ ('those') as a determinative, while the Vulgate has no article. The reference is anaphoric to the two fish previously mentioned.