Mark 6 : 48

Greek βασανιζομένους ('being tormented/distressed') is rendered by Peshitta ܕܡܫܬܢܩܝܢ ('being choked/strangled') and Vulgate laborantes ('laboring/toiling'), reflecting different semantic nuances of the disciples' struggle against the wind.

Greek uses articular infinitive construction ἐν τῷ ἐλαύνειν ('in the rowing'); Peshitta employs temporal particle ܟܕ ܪܕܝܢ ('while rowing'); Vulgate uses gerund in remigando ('in rowing'), all expressing contemporaneous action with different syntactic strategies.

Greek places the explanatory clause ἦν γὰρ ὁ ἄνεμος ἐναντίος αὐτοῖς after the participle; Vulgate mirrors this with parenthetical erat enim ventus contrarius eis; Peshitta reorders to ܪܘܚܐ ܓܝܪ ܠܘܩܒܠܗܘܢ ܗܘܬ, placing the verb finally, a typical Syriac syntactic pattern.

Greek περὶ ('about/around') and Vulgate circa ('around') express approximation; Peshitta ܘܒܡܛܪܬܐ ('and in the watch') uses the preposition ܒ ('in'), a more definite temporal marker, though the semantic force remains approximately equivalent.

The Peshitta explicitly names the subject ܝܫܘܥ ('Jesus') where Greek and Vulgate rely on the third-person singular verb to identify the agent. This represents a typical Syriac clarifying expansion for narrative flow.

Greek ἐπὶ τῆς θαλάσσης ('upon the sea') and Vulgate supra mare ('above the sea') use terms specifically denoting the sea; Peshitta ܥܠ ܡܝܐ ('upon the water') uses the generic term for water, a common Syriac idiom that encompasses both sea and lake contexts.

The Vulgate inserts a colon after mare to mark a major syntactic break before the final clause, a punctuation choice absent in the Greek and Peshitta manuscript traditions which treat the sentence as continuous.

Greek ἤθελεν (imperfect active) and Vulgate volebat (imperfect active) use simple imperfect forms; Peshitta ܘܨܒܐ ܗܘܐ employs a periphrastic construction (perfect participle + auxiliary verb) to express the imperfect aspect, a standard Syriac grammatical pattern.