Mark 3 : 9

The Greek aorist εἶπεν ('he said') and Syriac ܘܐܡܪ both render past-tense narrative, whereas the Vulgate dicit employs the historic present, a stylistic Latin feature for vivid narration. The Syriac prefixes the conjunction directly to the verb (ܘܐܡܪ), so its index recurs in the conjunction group above.

Greek and Latin express 'his disciples' with a separate possessive (αὐτοῦ / suis), while Syriac ܠܬܠܡܝܕܘܗܝ incorporates the dative-marking lamadh and the 3ms possessive suffix into a single inflected word, a typical agglutinative compression.

The Greek purpose clause ἵνα ... προσκαρτερῇ ('that [a boat] should wait upon') and the Latin ut ... deserviret are matched by the Syriac ܕܢܩܪܒܘܢ (root q-r-b, 'that they should bring near'); the Syriac substitutes a verb of 'bringing the boat near' for the Greek/Latin notion of the boat 'attending/serving,' a lexical and conceptual reformulation.

Greek πλοιάριον is a diminutive ('little boat'), whereas Latin navicula likewise carries diminutive force; the Syriac ܣܦܝܢܬܐ (root s-p-n) is the ordinary word for 'ship/boat' without diminutive nuance, losing the affective scale of the Greek.

The accusative object pronoun αὐτόν (Greek) and eum (Latin) stand as discrete words, whereas the Syriac has already absorbed this object into the verbal suffix of ܢܚܒܨܘܢܝܗܝ, so no separate Syriac token corresponds here.

The Vulgate alone marks a colon (':') at the verse's end, anticipating direct speech to follow; neither the Greek punctuation (a full stop after αὐτόν) nor the unpunctuated Syriac transmits this discourse-introducing mark.