Mark 8 : 5

Greek imperfect ἠρώτα ('he was asking') conveys ongoing or repeated inquiry, whereas the Vulgate aorist-like perfect interrogavit and the Syriac perfect ܘܫܐܠ render a simple completed act; the Syriac also subsumes 'and' (ܘ-) prefixed to the verb, the same form already counted for καὶ.

The Peshitta supplies an explicit independent pronoun ܗܘ ('he') to mark the subject of the verb, a feature absent from both the Greek and Latin where the 3rd-singular verb form alone suffices; this is a typical Syriac gloss for subject clarity.

Greek ἔχετε and Latin habetis use the transitive verb 'to have' with a 2nd-plural ending; the Syriac instead employs the existential particle ܐܝܬ with the dative ܠܟܘܢ ('there are to you'), a possessive idiom standard in Aramaic rather than a direct verb of possession.

Greek εἶπαν and Latin dixerunt express only the act of speaking, whereas the Syriac ܐܡܪܝܢ ܠܗ adds the dative ܠܗ ('to him'), making the indirect object of the reply explicit in conformity with Aramaic narrative style.

The Vulgate orthographically punctuates direct speech and the interrogative with colon and question mark (':' before quotation, '?' closing the question); these editorial marks have no counterpart in the unpunctuated transmission of the Greek lemmata or the Syriac and affect only the visual reading.