Mark 7:26
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For the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophenician born. And she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.

Greek.

Isaiah 49:12 Behold these shall come from afar, and behold these from the north and from the sea, and these from the south country.

Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek: there is neither bond nor free: there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 3:11 Where there is neither Gentile nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian nor Scythian, bond nor free. But Christ is all and in all.

a Syrophenician.

Matthew 15:22 And behold a woman of Canaan who came out of those coasts, crying out, said to him: Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David: my daughter is grievously troubled by a devil.

Context
The Faith of the Gentile Woman
25For a woman as soon as she heard of him, whose daughter had an unclean spirit, came in and fell down at his feet. 26For the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophenician born. And she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter. 27Who said to her: suffer first the children to be filled: for it is not good to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs.…
Cross References
Matthew 4:24
And his fame went throughout all Syria, and they presented to him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and such as were possessed by devils, and lunatics, and those that had the palsy, and he cured them:

Mark 7:25
For a woman as soon as she heard of him, whose daughter had an unclean spirit, came in and fell down at his feet.

Mark 7:27
Who said to her: suffer first the children to be filled: for it is not good to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs.

Lexicon
Now
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

she was
ἦν (ēn)
Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

a Greek
Ἑλληνίς (Hellēnis)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 1674: A female Greek. Feminine of Hellen; a Grecian woman.

woman
γυνὴ (gynē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 1135: A woman, wife, my lady. Probably from the base of ginomai; a woman; specially, a wife.

of
τῷ (tō)
Article - Dative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

Syrophoenician
Συροφοινίκισσα (Syrophoinikissa)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 4949: Feminine of a compound of Suros and the same as Phoinike; a Syro-phoenician woman, i.e. A female native of Phoenicia in Syria.

origin,
γένει (genei)
Noun - Dative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 1085: Offspring, family, race, nation, kind. From ginomai; 'kin'.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 2532: And, even, also, namely.

she kept asking
ἠρώτα (ērōta)
Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 2065: Apparently from ereo; to interrogate; by implication, to request.

[Jesus]
αὐτὸν (auton)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

to drive
ἐκβάλῃ (ekbalē)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 1544: To throw (cast, put) out; I banish; I bring forth, produce. From ek and ballo; to eject.

the
τὸ (to)
Article - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

demon
δαιμόνιον (daimonion)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 1140: An evil-spirit, demon; a heathen deity. Neuter of a derivative of daimon; a d?Monic being; by extension a deity.

out of
ἐκ (ek)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.

her
αὐτῆς (autēs)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Feminine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

daughter.
θυγατρὸς (thygatros)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 2364: Apparently a primary word; a female child, or descendant.


Additional Translations
Now she was a Greek woman of Syrophoenician origin, and she kept asking Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.

Now the woman was Gentile, Syrophoenician by race, and kept asking Him that He should cast forth the demon out of her daughter.

The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she sought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.

Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she besought him that he would cast forth the demon out of her daughter.

(and the woman was a Greek, Syrophenician by race), and asked him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.

Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.

(The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation,) and she besought him that he would cast forth the demon out of her daughter.

She was a Gentile woman, a Syro-phoenician by nation: and again and again she begged Him to expel the demon from her daughter.

Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.

and the woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phenician by nation -- and was asking him, that the demon he may cast forth out of her daughter.
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