Mark 7 : 26

Greek opens with the feminine article ἡ functioning as a demonstrative subject marker, mirrored by Syriac ܗܝ ('she/that one'); the Vulgate has no corresponding pronoun, beginning instead with the verb Erat, a stylistically smoother Latin word order.

Greek ἦν (imperfect of εἰμί) and Latin Erat render the copula with a single word; Syriac employs the periphrastic ܐܝܬܝܗ ܗܘܬ (existential ܐܝܬ with enclitic pronoun plus the auxiliary ܗܘܬ), a typical Syriac construction for past states of being.

Greek Ἑλληνίς ('Greek/Gentile woman') and Latin gentilis ('Gentile') stress non-Jewish ethnicity by reference to Hellenic culture; Syriac ܚܢܦܬܐ ('pagan/heathen woman', root kh-n-p) carries a religious rather than ethnic-linguistic nuance, foregrounding her status as a non-believer.

Greek Συροφοινίκισσα and Latin Syrophœnissa are single compound gentilic nouns; Syriac decomposes the term into ܦܘܢܝܩܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܐ ('Phoenicia of Syria'), an analytic genitive phrase that explicitly distinguishes Syrian Phoenicia from the Libyan (Carthaginian) Phoenicia.

Greek τῷ γένει and Latin genere express 'by race/birth' with a dative/ablative of respect; in the Syriac the notion of descent is carried by the genitive construction ܡܢ ܦܘܢܝܩܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܐ ('from Phoenicia of Syria') with the preposition ܡܢ, so there is no separate lexeme for 'by race'.

Greek ἠρώτα and Latin rogabat are simple imperfects expressing repeated entreaty; Syriac renders the durative aspect periphrastically with the participle ܒܥܝܐ plus auxiliary ܗܘܬ ('she was beseeching'), the standard Syriac equivalent of the Greek imperfect.