Thayer's
STRONGS NT 4949: ΣυροφοινίσσαΣυροφοινίσσα (so
Rec.; a form quite harmonizing with the analogies of the language, for as
Κίλιξ forms the feminine
Κιλισσα,
Θράξ the feminine
Θρᾷσσα,
ἄναξ the feminine
ἄνασσα, so the feminine of
Φοῖνιξ is always, by the Greeks, called
Φοίνισσα),
Συροφοινίκισσα (so
L T WH; hardly a pure form, and one which must be derived from
Φοινίκη; cf. Fritzsche on Mark, p. 296f;
Winer's Grammar, 95 (91)),
Συραφοινίκισσα (Griesbach; a form which conflicts with the law of composition),
Συραφοινικισσης,
ἡ (
Tr WH marginal reading
Σύρα Φοινίκισσα),
a Syrophoenician woman, i. e. of Syrophoenice by race, that is, from the Phoenice forming a part of Syria (
Συρο being prefixed for distinction's sake, for there were also
Λιβυφοινικες, i. e. the Carthaginians. The Greeks included both Phoenicia and Palestine under the name
ἡ Συρία; hence,
Συρία ἡ Παλαιστινη in
Herodotus 3, 91; 4, 39;
Justin Martyr, Apology 1:1; and
ἡ Φοινίκη Συρία,
Diodorus 19, 93;
Συροφοινικη, Justin Martyr, dialog contra Trypho,
c. 78, p. 305 a.): Mark 7:26 (cf. B. D. under the word ). (The masculine Συροφοῖνιξ is found in Lucian, concil. deor. c. 4; (Syrophoenix in Juvenal, sat. 8, 159 (cf. 160)).) STRONGS NT 4949: ΦοινίκισσαΦοινίκισσα, see Συροφοινίσσα.
