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A Canaanitish woman (gunē Chananaia). The Phoenicians were descended from the Canaanites, the original inhabitants of Palestine. They were of Semitic race, therefore, though pagan.
Have pity on me (eleēson me). She made her daughter’s case her own, “badly demonized.”