that was a cannanite woman > the woman was a greek by nation, a syrophenician (phoenician, canaanite) by genus; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter. originally written in koine greek so we see: >    ,    the greek says "in genus". > this woman was greek by nation, syrophoenician in genus she was nationally greek but not genetically > syrophoenician had its origin in the circumstance that phoenicia was part of the roman province of syria. the syrophoenician woman is also called khananaia (literally, canaanite; translated phoenician in nw), for the early inhabitants of phoenicia descended from canaan, and in time, canaan came to refer primarily to phoenicia.
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