Mark 13 : 34

The Peshitta inserts the demonstrative-copula ܗܘ ('he/it is') and the explanatory particle ܓܝܪ ('for'), supplying a discourse connective absent in both Greek and Latin. This is characteristic of Syriac narrative style, which favours overt resumptive elements to bind the parable to its preceding context.

Greek uses the single adjective ἀπόδημος ('away on a journey'); Latin renders periphrastically with adverb + participle peregre profectus ('having set out abroad'); Syriac employs the finite verb ܕܚܙܩ (root kh-z-q, 'who departed/girded for travel'). All three express the act of journeying abroad but differ in syntactic class.

Greek and Latin use a participle/finite verb with article + possessive (τὴν οἰκίαν αὐτοῦ / domum suam); Syriac compresses to ܘܫܒܩ ܒܝܬܗ ('and left his house'), with the possessive expressed by the pronominal suffix and no separate article. The coordinating ܘ ('and') in Syriac also restructures the participial chain into coordinated finite verbs.

Greek καί and Latin et coordinate the two clauses; Syriac instead carries coordination via the prefixed conjunctions on its verbs (ܘܫܒܩ, ܘܝܗܒ), so no independent conjunction token appears here.

Greek and Latin place 'to his servants' (τοῖς δούλοις αὐτοῦ / servis suis) before the object 'authority'; Syriac ܠܥܒܕܘܗܝ follows the object ܫܘܠܛܢܐ, reflecting a word-order inversion of indirect object and direct object within the clause.

Greek ἑκάστῳ and Latin cujusque render the distributive 'to each one' with a single lexeme; Syriac expresses distributivity by reduplication ܠܐܢܫ ܐܢܫ ('to man, man' = 'to each individual'), a typical Semitic idiom for distribution that has no morphological parallel in Greek or Latin.

Greek τὸ ἔργον αὐτοῦ and Latin operis ('his work / of work') name the assigned task explicitly with article and possessive; Syriac ܥܒܕܗ ('his work', root e-b-d) uses a pronominal suffix, and notably the Syriac root for 'work' echoes the root for 'servant' (e-b-d) in the preceding ܠܥܒܕܘܗܝ, producing a paronomastic link absent in the other traditions.

Greek καί and Latin et provide an explicit conjunction before the doorkeeper clause; Syriac again absorbs the coordination into the prefixed ܘ on ܘܠܬܪܥܐ, so no separate conjunction token is present.

Greek γρηγορῇ and Latin vigilet express 'that he keep watch' with a single subjunctive verb; Syriac uses a periphrastic construction ܕܢܗܘܐ ܥܝܪ ('that he be watchful', copula h-w-a + adjective e-y-r), splitting the notion into auxiliary plus predicate adjective — a common Syriac strategy for rendering durative or stative verbal ideas.