Schaff's Bible Dictionary
SY'RO-PHCENI'CIAN, a title applied to the woman who besought Jesus to heal her daughter. Mark 7:26. She is also called a woman of Canaan. Matt 15:22. "Syro-Phoenician" may denote a mixed race, half Syrian, half Phoenician, or the people in the Phoenician portion of the Roman province of Syria may have been so called, to distinguish them from the Phoenicians of Libya or the Carthaginians.
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