Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
A syrophenician
Bible References
Greek
Isaiah 49:12 See, these will come from far away,
from the north and from the west,
and from the land of Sinim.
from the north and from the west,
and from the land of Sinim.
Galatians 3:28
There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Colossians 3:11
In Christ there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all.
A syrophenician
Matthew 15:22
Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came and kept crying out, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is cruelly tormented by a demon.”