noun · feminine

surofoinikissas

GreekΣυροφοινίκισσα (surofoinikissa)

Strong’sG4949

Syrophoenician

stem surofoinikiss-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

Syrophoenician1×

What it means

Συροφοινίκισσα (Rec. -φοίνισσα), -ης, ἡ

a Syropænician woman: Mk 7:26, WH, txt., RV (cf. ἡ Φοινίκη Συρία, Diod., 19, 93).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4949 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidsoo-rof-oy'-nis-sah

a Syro-phœnician woman, i.e. a female native of Phœnicia in Syria

Fromfeminine of a compound of G4948 and the same as G5403;

King JamesSyrophenician.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	surofoinikissas1×Συροφοινίκισσα	surofoinikissais
object accusative	surofoinikissan	surofoinikissain
direct address vocative	surofoinikissar	surofoinikissair
of, belonging to genitive	surofoinikissau	surofoinikissaiu
to, for dative	surofoinikissa	surofoinikissai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

surofoinikissstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

surofoinikissa is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

surofoinikissas“Syrophoenician”subjectnominative singular1×

Mark 7:26“Syrophoenician”tas de gunaikas ate Hellēnias, Surofoinikissas te gene; kai erōtate auton hina tem daimonem ekballateia ek tau thugatērau autau.Now she was a Greek woman of Syrophoenician origin, and she kept asking Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.