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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Syrophenician (Syria)
A Gentile woman of Phoenician descent from the Roman province of Syria, who begged Jesus to heal her daughter near Tyre. Matthew calls her a woman of Canaan. Her answer to his first refusal is what people remember.
A Gentile woman of Phoenician descent from the Roman province of Syria, who begged Jesus to heal her daughter near Tyre. Matthew calls her a woman of Canaan. Her answer to his first refusal is what people remember.
Not a personal name but a term for a Gentile of Phoenician descent from the Roman province of Syria, used in Mark 7:26 to describe the woman whose daughter Jesus healed from a distance near Tyre; Matthew's parallel calls her "a woman of Canaan" (Matt. 15:22). The term distinguished Syrian Phoenicians from the Phoenicians of Libya around Carthage. Her persistent faith, despite Jesus's initial refusal, became a byword for Gentile inclusion in the gospel.
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- Mark 7:26
