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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Greek (Man living at the time of the Patriarchs)
Used of a woman. Mark calls the Syrophoenician mother who begged Jesus to heal her daughter a Greek, meaning a Gentile, not Greek by birth. The honourable Greek women at Berea who believed Paul get the same word.
Used of a woman. Mark calls the Syrophoenician mother who begged Jesus to heal her daughter a Greek, meaning a Gentile, not Greek by birth. The honourable Greek women at Berea who believed Paul get the same word.
This form of “Greek” specifically denotes a Greek woman, and is used of the Syrophoenician woman who asked Jesus to heal her daughter, identified by Mark as “a Greek, a Syrophoenician by nation” (Mark 7:26), meaning a Gentile rather than an ethnic Greek by descent. It is also used of the “honourable women” among the Greeks in Berea who believed Paul's message alongside many Jews (Acts 17:12).
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- Mark 7:26
- Acts 17:12
