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- adjective an inhabitant of the
Phoenician part ofSyria
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Examples
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Mark, he calls a Syrophoenician) he adds her name, 'Justa,' and that of her daughter 'Bernice.'
The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History Annie Wood Besant 1890
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The people who see the point – the Syrophoenician woman, blind Bartimaeus, and of course the centurion of the cross, whose words we heard earlier this evening – the people who see the point are the people the disciples do not expect to see the point.
Archbishop's Presidential Address to the 14th Meeting of the ACC 2009
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He was careful to heal the daughter of the Syrophoenician woman, even though she was a Gentile.
Arlington UMC pastor preaches award-winning sermon on health care | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009
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The story of the Syrophoenician woman, beseeching our Saviour for her possessed daughter, and of his return thence by Decapolis to the sea of
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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Syrophoenician cities bordering upon Antioch, which were possessed by the
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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A Greek woman, a Syrophoenician Although Judea, and almost the whole world, had now a long while stooped under the yoke of the Romans, yet the memory of the Syro-Grecian kingdom, and the name of the nation, was not yet vanished.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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In Mark it is, A Greek woman, a Syrophoenician by nation, chapter 7: 26.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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Certainly Nicetas Choniates mentions the Syrophoenician cities as far as Antioch.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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You will see, in some maps, the Syrophoenician woman pictured, making her supplication to our Saviour for her possessed daughter, almost at the gates of Sidon.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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Christ now had to do with a heathen possessed person; which was somewhat rare, and except the daughter of the Syrophoenician woman, without any example.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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