Mark 6 : 34

Greek and Latin render the action as an aorist/present participle (ἐξελθὼν, exiens, 'having gone out'); the Peshitta uses a finite verb prefixed with the conjunctive waw (ܘܢܦܩ, 'and he went out'), turning the subordinate participle into a coordinate clause — a characteristic Syriac paratactic construction.

All three name Jesus as subject, but its placement differs: Greek and Latin position the proper noun after the verb of seeing (with Latin deferring it to the end of the clause, Jesus, set off by a colon), whereas the Peshitta fronts ܝܫܘܥ immediately after the opening verb. The Syriac also lacks the Greek article ὁ, which has no equivalent in Semitic syntax.

The Vulgate inserts a colon after Jesus, a Clementine editorial punctuation mark dividing the perception from the emotional response; no corresponding mark exists in the Greek NA28 word stream or the Peshitta.

Greek ἐσπλαγχνίσθη ('was moved in the inward parts') is a vivid visceral verb; the Peshitta ܐܬܪܚܡ (root r-ḥ-m, 'showed mercy/compassion') and the Latin periphrastic misertus est ('had pity') both render the emotion abstractly rather than with the Greek bowel-metaphor.

Greek uses preposition + accusative pronoun (ἐπ᾽ αὐτούς) and Latin matches it analytically (super eos); the Peshitta compresses the same idea into a single inflected prepositional form ܥܠܝܗܘܢ ('upon them'), with the pronominal suffix carrying the object.

Greek ὡς ('as, like') and Latin sicut introduce a simple comparison, while the Peshitta employs the verbal root d-m-y in ܕܕܡܝܢ ('who resembled'), rendering the comparison through a finite relative verb rather than a comparative particle.

Greek and Latin express 'not having a shepherd' with a negated participle (μὴ ἔχοντα ποιμένα / non habentes pastorem); the Peshitta recasts this as a negated possessive existential relative clause ܕܠܝܬ ܠܗܘܢ ܪܥܝܐ ('who have no shepherd to them'), the standard Syriac idiom for possession using lyt + lām-suffix.

Greek ἤρξατο and Latin cœpit are single inceptive verbs ('he began'); the Peshitta ܫܪܝ ܗܘܐ adds the auxiliary ܗܘܐ to form a compound past-progressive ('he was beginning'), a common Syriac tense construction marking durative or background action.

Both the Greek (αὐτούς) and the Peshitta (ܐܢܘܢ) supply the explicit accusative object 'them'; the Vulgate omits the object pronoun entirely after docere, leaving it implicit — a typical Latin economy.