Syrophenician

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Syrophenician
     "a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation" (Mark 7:26), i.e., a
     Gentile born in the Phoenician part of Syria. (See {PHENICIA}.)
     
       When our Lord retired into the borderland of Tyre and Sidon
     (Matt. 15:21), a Syro-phoenician woman came to him, and


     earnestly besought him, in behalf of her daughter, who was
     grievously afflicted with a demon. Her faith in him was severely
     tested by his silence (Matt. 15:23), refusal (24), and seeming
     reproach that it was not meet to cast the children's bread to
     dogs (26). But it stood the test, and her petition was
     graciously granted, because of the greatness of her faith (28).