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SYROPHOENICIAN

(Gk. Syrophoiníkissa)

The gentile (“Greek”) woman who begs Jesus to remove the evil spirit from her daughter (Mark 7:24-30). The parallel passage in Matt. 15 refers to the woman as a Canaanite. Her “Syrophoenician origin” indicates that she came from the region of Tyre and Sidon in the Roman province of Syria. At first Jesus refuses to heal the daughter on the grounds that he has come only for Jewish people. Jesus tells the woman that children must be fed before dogs, with readers understanding that the children were Jews and dogs were Gentiles. When the woman reminds Jesus that dogs eat the crumbs from the children’s table, Jesus rewards her persistence and heals her daughter.

Michelle Tooley






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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