Mark 9 : 6

EN For he didn’t know what to say, for they were very afraid.

ES Porque no sabía lo que hablaba; que estaban espantados.

ZH-HANS 彼得不知道说什么才好，因为他们甚是惧怕。

ZH-HANT 彼得不知道說甚麼才好，因為他們甚是懼怕。

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construction All three attest

Greek NT ᾔδει

Peshitta ܝܕܥ ܗܘܐ

Vulgate sciebat

The Greek pluperfect ᾔδει ('he knew') is rendered periphrastically in Syriac with the perfect participle ܝܕܥ plus the auxiliary ܗܘܐ, the standard Aramaic construction for past durative/stative aspect. The Vulgate uses the simple imperfect sciebat, matching the Greek aspect more directly.

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lexical All three attest

Greek NT ἀποκριθῇ

Peshitta ܐܡܪ

Vulgate diceret

Greek ἀποκριθῇ ('he might answer') is a deliberative aorist subjunctive denoting an indirect deliberative question; both the Syriac ܐܡܪ ('he should say') and Vulgate diceret ('he might say') generalise the verb to 'speak/say' rather than 'reply', softening the dialogic nuance of the Greek.

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construction All three attest

Greek NT ἔκφοβοι

Peshitta ܒܕܚܠܬܐ

Vulgate exterriti

Greek expresses the predicate as a single adjective ἔκφοβοι ('terrified'); the Vulgate renders it as noun-plus-participle timore exterriti ('struck with fear'), and the Syriac as a prepositional phrase ܒܕܚܠܬܐ ('in/with fear'), each unpacking the compound adjective with a different syntactic strategy.

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lexical All three attest

Greek NT ἐγένοντο.¶

Peshitta ܐܝܬܝܗܘܢ ܗܘܘ

Vulgate enim

Greek ἐγένοντο ('they became') uses the verb of becoming, whereas the Syriac employs the existential ܐܝܬܝܗܘܢ ܗܘܘ ('they were') and the Vulgate the copula erant ('they were'); the versions thus render a verb of state rather than the inceptive 'became' of the Greek.