Mark 8 : 3

The Greek conditional particle ἐάν and Latin si introduce the protasis straightforwardly; Syriac renders the condition with ܘܐܢ followed by the resumptive pronoun ܗܘ ('if it be that...'), a periphrastic conditional formula idiomatic to Syriac that has no direct counterpart in the other two traditions.

Greek νήστεις and Latin jejunos are predicative adjectives ('fasting/hungry'); Syriac expands this to a subordinate temporal clause ܟܕ ܨܝܡܝܢ ('while they are fasting'), making the circumstantial sense explicit through a participial construction introduced by ܟܕ.

Greek uses preposition εἰς + accusative οἶκον + genitive pronoun (singular 'home'), matched by Latin in domum suam; Syriac collapses this into a single inflected form ܠܒܬܝܗܘܢ with the dative-locative prefix and a plural noun ('to their houses'), differing in both number and morphological economy.

Greek ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ and Latin in via (with colon punctuation) both employ preposition + article + noun; Syriac uses the single prefixed form ܒܐܘܪܚܐ, lacking the definite article as a separate token but conveying the same locative sense ('on the way').

Greek opens the second clause with the simple connective καί; both Latin (enim) and Syriac (ܓܝܪ) instead supply an explanatory/causal particle ('for'), making the logical grounding explicit where the Greek leaves it paratactic — a shared interpretive choice of the two versions against the Greek.

Greek indefinite τινες and Latin quidam are pronominal indefinites ('some'); Syriac uses the noun ܐܢܫܐ ('people/men') in a partitive sense, a lexical rather than purely pronominal expression of the indefinite subject.

Greek ἥκασιν is a perfect indicative ('have come'), and Latin venerunt is likewise a perfect; Syriac employs the participle ܐܬܝܐܝܢ ('are come/coming'), reflecting the Syriac tendency to render the Greek perfect of state by an active participle of present resultative force.