Mark 5 : 40

Greek κατεγέλων is a simple imperfect ('they were laughing at'); the Peshitta renders it periphrastically with ܓܚܟܝܢ ܗܘܘ (active participle + enclitic ܗܘܘ), the standard Syriac construction for durative past, while the Latin imperfect irridebant matches the Greek directly.

Greek uses the aorist participle ἐκβαλὼν ('having put out') subordinate to the main verb; the Latin renders it as an ablative absolute ejectis omnibus; the Syriac employs a finite verb ܐܦܩ ('he put out'), a coordinate construction typical of Syriac narrative parataxis.

Greek παραλαμβάνει and Latin assumit are present-tense compounds ('takes with [him]'); the Syriac ܘܕܒܪ adds the coordinating ܘ ('and') and uses the verb d-b-r ('led/took'), constructing the action paratactically rather than as the lead verb of the clause.

Greek τοῦ παιδίου ('of the child') and Syriac ܕܛܠܝܬܐ ('of the girl') stand here next to 'father'; the Vulgate transfers puellæ to follow matrem, placing the genitive modifier after 'mother' rather than 'father', a minor word-order shift that nonetheless makes both parents the child's.

Greek τοὺς μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ ('those with him') and Latin qui secum erant ('who were with him') use an explicit relative/copular construction; Syriac ܕܥܡܗ condenses this into a single relative-prepositional form ('those-with-him'), a more economical idiom lacking an overt copula.

Greek and Latin describe the child as 'lying/reclining' (ἀνακείμενον / jacens), an explicit posture participle; the Syriac ܕܪܡܝܐ ܗܘܬ ܛܠܝܬܐ uses the root r-m-y ('was cast/laid') with a periphrastic perfect, conveying the same recumbent state but framing it as 'where the girl had been laid'.