> Mark 7:26 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.

Is this true, or was the woman of Canaan (Matt. 15:22)? The latter is the term used for someone who was a native of Gentile Palestine. "Syrophenician" is a more specific referent distinguishing her from other Canaanite locales, such as the Carthaginian Phoenicians. "Greek" refers to the woman's membership in the Hellenized citizen class of Tyre or Sidon. The classifications vary in specificity (as in, "American", "Floridian", "Miamian") but are not contradictory. Bauckham suggests that Matthew uses the "Canaanite" designation to make her connected to the two Canaanite women in his genealogy (Tamar and Rahab).