Mark 5 : 27

Greek employs an aorist participle with articular neuter plural object (ἀκούσασα τὰ περὶ τοῦ Ἰησοῦ, 'having heard the [things] concerning Jesus'); Syriac uses a temporal particle with perfect verb (ܟܕ ܫܡܥܬ ܥܠ ܝܫܘܥ, 'when she heard about Jesus') without explicit object; Vulgate mirrors the Syriac construction with cum + pluperfect subjunctive (cum audisset de Jesu). The Greek article τὰ substantivizes the prepositional phrase, creating a direct object absent in the other traditions.

Greek places the locative phrase ἐν τῷ ὄχλῳ ('in the crowd') before the directional adverb ὄπισθεν ('from behind'); Syriac reverses this order with ܒܚܒܨܐ ܕܟܢܫܐ ܡܢ ܒܣܬܪܗ ('in the press of the crowd from behind him'), embedding the directional phrase within a construct chain; Vulgate follows Greek word order (in turba retro) but uses an adverb rather than preposition. All three convey identical spatial semantics through different syntactic strategies.