Mark 9 : 44

EN ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’

ES Donde su gusano no muere, y el fuego nunca se apaga.

ZH-HANS 你缺了肢体进入永生，强如有两只手落到地狱，入那不灭的火里去。

ZH-HANT 你缺了肢體進入永生，強如有兩隻手落到地獄，入那不滅的火裏去。

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construction All three attest

Greek NT ὁ σκώληξ αὐτῶν

Peshitta ܕܬܘܠܥܗܘܢ

Vulgate vermis eorum

Greek expresses 'their worm' analytically with article + noun + genitive pronoun (ὁ σκώληξ αὐτῶν), and Latin similarly with vermis eorum; Syriac ܕܬܘܠܥܗܘܢ compresses the whole phrase into a single word bearing the 3mp pronominal suffix, a typical Semitic synthetic construction.

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Greek NT οὐ τελευτᾷ

Peshitta ܠܐ ܡܝܬܐ

Vulgate non moritur

All three negate the verb 'to die', but Greek uses τελευτάω ('comes to an end, dies') whereas Syriac employs the bare root m-w-th and Latin morior; the renderings are semantically equivalent though Greek's lexeme is slightly more euphemistic.

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Greek NT τὸ πῦρ

Peshitta ܘܢܘܪܗܘܢ

Vulgate ignis

Greek τὸ πῦρ and Latin ignis present 'the fire' without possessor, while Syriac ܘܢܘܪܗܘܢ ('and their fire') again synthesises conjunction, noun and a 3mp suffix into one form, supplying a possessive ('their') absent from the Greek and Latin witnesses.

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Greek NT οὐ σβέννυται

Peshitta ܠܐ ܕܥܟܐ

Vulgate non extinguitur

The clause 'is not quenched' is rendered with the passive σβέννυται in Greek and the passive extinguitur in Latin, whereas the Syriac root d-e-k ('to be extinguished') in ܕܥܟܐ functions actively/intransitively; the meaning is identical but the diathesis differs.