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SYROPHŒNICIAN.—This is the designation of a ‘Greek’ (or Gentile) woman whose demoniac daughter Jesus healed when near Tyre (Mar_7:26). She was perhaps Greek-speaking (Swete), but was descended from the old Phœnicians of Syria (|| Mat_15:22 has ‘Canaanitish’).
A. J. Maclean.