Mark 1 : 18

Greek ἀφέντες and Syriac ܫܒܩܘ render the act of leaving with a finite/participial verb, whereas the Vulgate employs an ablative absolute (relictis retibus); the Syriac uses a coordinated finite verb ('they left') rather than a subordinate participle, but all express the same temporal sequence.

Greek τὰ δίκτυα αὐτῶν spells out article, noun, and possessive pronoun, and Latin retibus omits any possessive; the Syriac ܡܨܝܕܬܗܘܢ compactly encodes 'their nets' with a single noun bearing the 3rd-plural possessive suffix, agreeing in sense with the Greek against the Vulgate's bare noun.

Greek ἠκολούθησαν ('they followed') is matched by Latin secuti sunt, but the Syriac uses ܘܐܙܠܘ ('and they went', root a-z-l) joined to the following prepositional phrase ܒܬܪܗ; the idiom 'went after him' substitutes a motion verb plus preposition for the single verb 'follow' attested in Greek and Latin.

Greek and Latin express the object with a simple dative/accusative pronoun (αὐτῷ / eum), while the Syriac completes its 'went after' idiom with the prepositional ܒܬܪܗ ('after him'), the syntactic complement required by ܐܙܠ rather than the direct object construction of ἀκολουθέω.