syro-phoenician Summary and Overview
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syro-phoenician in Smith's Bible Dictionary
occurs only in #Mr 7:26| The word denoted perhaps a mixed race, half Phoenicians and half Syrians; (or the Phoenicians in this region may have been called Syro-phoenicians because they belonged to the Roman province of Syria, and were thus distinguished from the Phoenicians who lived in Africa, or the Carthaginians. --ED.)