Mark 7 : 6

Greek opens with the articular subject Ὁ; the Vulgate renders this with the demonstrative pronoun ille ('he'), and the Peshitta with ܗܘ. All three mark the same anaphoric subject, but Greek uses the bare article substantivally while the versions employ explicit pronouns.

Greek ἀποκριθεὶς and Latin respondens preserve the participial 'answering' typical of Semitic narrative style; the Peshitta omits any equivalent of the answering-verb here, compressing the introduction to a simple ܐܡܪ ('said').

Greek introduces direct discourse with recitative ὅτι· (the so-called ὅτι recitativum, untranslated in English); the Vulgate marks the same boundary with a colon. The Peshitta has no corresponding particle, beginning the quotation directly.

Both Greek (Ἠσαΐας) and Latin (Isaias) give the bare proper name; the Peshitta appends the epithet ܢܒܝܐ ('the prophet'), an expansion characteristic of Syriac honorific naming of scriptural authors.

Greek τῶν ὑποκριτῶν and Latin hypocritis explicitly label the addressees 'hypocrites'; the Peshitta of this verse lacks the noun here, instead supplying the idiom ܢܣܒܝ ܒܐܦܐ ('respecters of persons / face-takers') below, which functionally replaces the Greek epithet.

The Peshitta uniquely reads ܢܣܒܝ ܒܐܦܐ, the Semitic idiom 'takers of the face' (i.e. partial, hypocritical respecters of persons), in place of the single Greek term ὑποκριτῶν. This is a lexical-idiomatic substitution rendering the concept of hypocrisy through a native Aramaic expression rather than the Greek loan.

Greek introduces the citation with a second recitative ὅτι, matched by the Vulgate colon; the Peshitta carries the quotation directly into ܕܥܡܐ without a separate marker.

Greek τοῖς χείλεσίν and Latin labiis use the plural 'lips'; the Peshitta ܒܣܦܘܬܗ carries a third-person singular possessive suffix ('with his/its lips'), agreeing with the collective ܥܡܐ and reflecting Syriac's tendency to mark possession on the body-part noun.

The Peshitta inserts the emphatic copular/predicate particle ܗܘ after the lips-clause, a syntactic feature of Syriac to mark the predicate; it has no separate counterpart in the Greek or Latin, which leave the relation implicit in the verb.

The Peshitta adds the intensifier ܣܓܝ ('greatly, very'), strengthening the predicate to 'is very far' from me. Neither the Greek πόρρω alone nor the Latin longe carries this additional adverb of degree.

Greek uses the lexically fuller verb ἀπέχει ('holds off, is distant'); the Vulgate renders with the simple copula est ('is [far]'), and the Peshitta likewise leaves the verb 'to be' implicit, expressing the predicate adjectivally with ܪܚܝܩ. A construction/lexical difference of equal meaning.

The Vulgate closes the verse with a colon anticipating the continuation of the quotation in the following verse; this editorial punctuation has no lexical counterpart in the Greek period or in the Peshitta.