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Syrophoenician, Syro-phoenician, Syrophenician
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si'-ro-fe-nish'-an ((Aram) high, highlands, (Phoinike) land of dates, or palm trees)
RELATED: Canaanite, Syria |
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
"a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation" ( Mark
7:26 ), i.e., a Gentile born in the Phoenician part of Syria. (See PHENICIA)
When our Lord retired into the borderland of Tyre and Sidon ( Matthew
15:21 ), a Syro-phoenician woman came to him, and earnestly besought him,
in behalf of her daughter, who was grievously afflicted with a demon. Her faith
in him was severely tested by his silence ( Matthew
15:23 ), refusal ( Matthew
15:24 ), and seeming reproach that it was not meet to cast the children's
bread to dogs ( Matthew
15:26 ). But it stood the test, and her petition was graciously granted, because
of the greatness of her faith ( Matthew
15:28 ).
Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names
(no entry)
Smith's Bible Dictionary
occurs only in ( Mark
7:26 ) The word denoted perhaps a mixed race, half Phoenicians and half Syrians;
(or the Phoenicians in this region may have been called Syro-phoenicians because
they belonged to the Roman province of Syria, and were thus distinguished from
the Phoenicians who lived in Africa, or the Carthaginians. --ED.)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
si'-ro-fe-nish'-an, sir-o- (Surophoinissa, Surophoinikissa;
Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in Greek has variant Sura Phoinikissa; the
King James Version Syrophenician):
The woman from the borders of Tyre and Sidon whose daughter Jesus healed is described
as "a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race" (Mark
7:26), and again as "a Canaanitish woman" (Matthew
15:22). This seems to mean that she was of Canaanite descent, a native of
the Phoenician seaboard, Greek in religion, and probably also in speech. The names
Syria and Phoenicia are both applied to the same region in Acts
21:2 , 3.
Syrophoenician may therefore denote simply an inhabitant of these parts. According
to Strabo (xvii.3), this district was called Syrophoenicia to distinguish it from
the North African Lybophoenicia.
W. Ewing
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