Mark 7 : 23

Greek substantivises the adjective with the neuter article (τὰ πονηρά, 'the evil things'); Latin uses the bare neuter plural adjective mala; Syriac employs the feminine plural noun ܒܝܫܬܐ ('evils/wicked things') without an article, reflecting the determinate emphatic state. Semantically equivalent but morphologically distinct.

The single Greek adverb ἔσωθεν ('from within') is analysed by both Latin (ab intus, preposition + adverb) and Syriac (ܡܢ ܠܓܘ ܗܘ, preposition + 'inside' + resumptive pronoun ܗܘ) into multi-word locative phrases. The Syriac resumptive ܗܘ functions as a clausal pivot and has no direct counterpart in Greek or Latin.

Greek ἐκπορεύεται and Latin procedunt render 'go forth/proceed', but the Greek is third-person singular (agreeing with the neuter plural subject per the Attic τὰ πάντα... rule) while the Latin is plural; the Syriac ܢܦܩܢ is feminine plural, agreeing with the feminine plural subject ܒܝܫܬܐ. The number/gender of the verb thus tracks each language's distinct concord rules.

The defiling verb (κοινοῖ 'defiles/makes common', communicant, ܡܣܝܒܢ) is here prefixed in the Peshitta to the same token bearing the conjunction (ܘܡܣܝܒܢ), again inflected feminine plural to agree with ܒܝܫܬܐ, against the singular Greek κοινοῖ. Latin communicant matches the plural number but, like Greek, lacks gender marking.

The object 'the man' is expressed by Greek τὸν ἄνθρωπον and Latin hominem; the Peshitta adds a proleptic object pronoun ܠܗ ('him') anticipating the explicit ܠܒܪܢܫܐ, a characteristic Syriac double-object construction with no equivalent in the Greek or Latin. The Greek paragraph marker (¶) is editorial.