Mark 6 : 41

Greek employs article + numeral + noun (τοὺς πέντε ἄρτους); Peshitta uses demonstrative + numeral + noun (ܗܢܘܢ ܚܡܫܐ ܠܚܡܝܢ); Vulgate uses numeral + noun (quinque panibus) without article. All three convey identical referential meaning with stylistic variation typical of each language's article system.

Greek ἀναβλέψας εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν ('having looked up to heaven') uses the compound verb ἀναβλέπω; Vulgate intuens in cælum employs the simple verb intueri ('gazing into'); Peshitta ܘܚܪ ܒܫܡܝܐ uses the root ܚܪ ('to look'). All three denote upward gaze but with different lexical choices reflecting translation style.

Greek uses aorist κατέκλασεν with repeated article τοὺς ἄρτους ('the loaves'); Peshitta ܘܩܨܐ ܠܚܡܐ employs singular collective noun ('the bread'); Vulgate fregit panes uses plural without article. The Peshitta's singular is a typical Syriac idiom for mass distribution of bread, semantically equivalent to the Greek and Latin plurals.

Greek uses ἵνα + subjunctive παρατιθῶσιν αὐτοῖς ('that they might set before them'); Peshitta employs ܕܢܣܝܡܘܢ ܠܗܘܢ (d- + imperfect, 'that they might place to them'); Vulgate expands with ut ponerent ante eos, adding the preposition ante ('before') to make the spatial relationship explicit, whereas Greek and Syriac encode this in the verb παρατίθημι / ܣܝܡ.

Vulgate inserts a colon (:) to mark a major syntactic break before the second clause about the fish. Neither Greek nor Peshitta manuscripts transmit punctuation at this juncture, though the καί in Greek [26] serves as the clause connector.

Greek καὶ τοὺς δύο ἰχθύας places conjunction + article + numeral + noun; Peshitta ܘܗܢܘܢ ܬܪܝܢ ܢܘܢܝܢ uses conjunction + demonstrative + numeral + noun; Vulgate et duos pisces omits article/demonstrative. The Peshitta's demonstrative ܗܢܘܢ ('those') provides anaphoric reference to the previously mentioned fish, a stylistic feature absent in Greek and Latin here.

Greek ἐμέρισεν πᾶσιν ('He divided among all') uses aorist active with dative πᾶσιν; Peshitta ܦܠܓܘ ܠܟܠܗܘܢ employs perfect active with prepositional phrase; Vulgate divisit omnibus mirrors Greek structure with perfect tense and dative. The Peshitta's use of the preposition ܠ- instead of bare dative is standard Syriac syntax, semantically identical to the Greek and Latin dative constructions.