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).