Mark 13 : 37

Greek δέ appears in second position (post-positive); Peshitta ܕܝܢ appears in third position after the prepositional phrase ܕܠܟܘܢ; Vulgate autem maintains second position. All three function as adversative/continuative conjunctions with identical semantic force.

Peshitta explicitly supplies the first-person pronoun ܐܢܐ ('I') alongside the verb ܐܡܪ, whereas Greek λέγω and Latin dico encode the subject morphologically within the verb form. This represents typical Syriac preference for explicit pronominal subjects even when grammatically redundant.

Peshitta expands the second λέγω with an emphatic construction: ܗܘ ܐܡܪ ܐܢܐ (literally 'it-is I-say I'), employing the demonstrative pronoun ܗܘ as a copular element and repeating the explicit subject ܐܢܐ. This creates rhetorical emphasis absent in the Greek's simple verb repetition (λέγω) and the Latin's parallel structure (dico). The Peshitta's tripartite construction intensifies the universal application of the command.

Greek uses the imperative γρηγορεῖτε; Latin mirrors this with the imperative Vigilate. Peshitta employs a periphrastic construction ܗܘܝܬܘܢ ܥܝܪܝܢ ('be [you] watchful'), using the imperative of 'to be' plus an active participle, a common Syriac idiom for expressing continuous or durative commands.