Mark 6 : 21

Greek Καί is a simple coordinating conjunction; the Peshitta fuses the conjunction with the verb 'to be' in ܘܗܘܐ ('and there was/came to be'), while the Vulgate isolates Et as a separate particle. The clause-initial waw-consecutive pattern in Syriac reflects Semitic narrative style.

Greek uses the aorist genitive-absolute participle γενομένης; Syriac renders the predicate with the auxiliary ܗܘܐ (here placed after the noun phrase, idx 9), and the Vulgate uses a finite pluperfect-subjunctive accidisset within a cum-clause. Three distinct syntactic strategies express the same temporal circumstance.

Greek εὐκαίρου ('opportune, well-timed') and Latin opportunus closely agree, whereas Syriac ܝܕܝܥܐ (root y-d-ʿ, 'known, appointed, designated') shifts the nuance toward a fixed or recognised day rather than a merely favourable one, a typical Peshitta interpretive choice.

Greek τοῖς γενεσίοις αὐτοῦ ('on his birthday-feast', dative plural with article and pronoun) is rendered by the Vulgate as a bare genitive natalis sui. The Peshitta paraphrases with a prepositional construct chain ܒܒܝܬ ܝܠܕܗ ('in/on the house[-celebration] of his birth'), adding the lexeme 'house' (b-y-t) as an idiomatic framing of the festal occasion absent from the other witnesses.

Greek reads τοῖς μεγιστᾶσιν αὐτοῦ ('for his nobles/grandees'), with the possessive pronoun αὐτοῦ explicit. The Vulgate principibus omits the pronoun entirely, whereas the Syriac ܠܪܘܪܒܢܘܗܝ retains it as a pronominal suffix ('-his'), matching the Greek and against the Latin.

Greek τοῖς πρώτοις τῆς Γαλιλαίας ('the leading men of Galilee') uses a substantivised superlative with genitive; the Vulgate primis Galilææ matches closely, while the Syriac ܠܪܫܐ ܕܓܠܝܠܐ employs the noun ܪܫܐ ('chiefs', root r-š-ʾ) plus the relative-genitive particle ܕ, a lexical rather than superlative rendering of 'foremost'.

The Clementine Vulgate closes the verse with a colon, marking the anticipatory list as syntactically incomplete and leading into the following narrative; this editorial punctuation has no counterpart in the unpointed Greek or Syriac token stream.