Mark 7:26

Mark 7:26 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
• New International Version (NIV)The woman was a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
• New King James Version (NKJV)The woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

Context of Mark 7:26

24Jesus left that place and went to the territory of Tyre. He didn’t want anyone to know that he was staying in a house there. However, it couldn’t be kept a secret. 25A woman whose little daughter had an evil spirit heard about Jesus. She went to him and bowed down. The woman happened to be Greek, born in Phoenicia in Syria. She asked him to force the demon out of her daughter. 27Jesus said to her, “First, let the children eat all they want. It’s not right to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.” 28She answered him, “Lord, even the dogs under the table eat some of the children’s scraps.”

Mark 7:26 word by word

ἡ δὲ γυνὴ ἦν Ἑλληνὶς Συροφοινίκισσα τῷ γένει, καὶ ἠρώτα αὐτὸν ἵνα τὸ δαιμόνιον ἐκβάλῃ ἐκ τῆς θυγατρὸς αὐτῆς.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• ·δέde · thenG1161
• The womanὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• The womanγυνήgunē · womanG1135
• wasεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• a GreekἙλληνίς=ἙλληνίςHellēnis · GentileG1674
• a SyrophenicianΣυροφοίνισσαSurophoinissa · SyrophoenicianG4949
• by nationγένοςgenos · family: descendantG1085
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• she besoughtἐρωτάωerōtaō · to askG2065
• himαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• thatἵναhina · in order that/toG2443
• he would cast forthἐκβάλλωekballō · to expelG1544
• the devilδαιμόνιονdaimonion · demonG1140
• outἐκek ex · out fromG1537
• ofθυγάτηρthugatēr · daughterG2364

Cross-references for Mark 7:26

• Isaiah 49:12They will come from far away. They will come from the north and from the west, and they will come from the land of Sinim.
• Galatians 3:28There are neither Jews nor Greeks, slaves nor free people, males nor females. You are all the same in Christ Jesus.
• Colossians 3:11Where this happens, there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, uncivilized person, slave, or free person. Instead, Christ is everything and in everything.
• Matthew 15:22A Canaanite woman from that territory came ⌞to him⌟ and began to shout, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is tormented by a demon.”

Commentaries on Mark 7:26

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 26The woman was a Greek - Rosenmuller has well observed, that all heathens or idolaters were called ̔, Greeks, by the Jews; whether they were Parthians, Medes, Arabs, Indians, or Ethiopians. Jews and Greeks divided the whole world at this period.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 24-30Verses 24-30 See this miracle explained in the notes at Matthew 15:21-28. Mark 7:24 Would have no man know it - To avoid the designs of the Pharisees he wished to be retired. Mark 7:26 A Greek - The Jews called all persons “Greeks” who were not of their nation. Compare Romans 1:14. The whole world was considered as divided into Jews and Greeks. Though she might not have been strictly a “Greek,” yet she came under this general appellation as a foreigner.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 24-30Verses 24-30 Christ never put any from him that fell at his feet, which a poor trembling soul may do. As she was a good woman, so a good mother. This sent her to Christ. His saying, Let the children first be filled, shows that there was mercy for the Gentiles, and not far off. She spoke, not as making light of the mercy, but magnifying the abundance of miraculous cures among the Jews, in comparison with which a single cure was but as a crumb. Thus, while…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 25-26The woman was from Syrian Phoenicia and therefore a Gentile. The urgency and intensity of the woman’s petition is seen in her falling at the feet of Jesus and begging.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2626. The woman was a Greek--that is, "a Gentile," as in the Margin. a Syrophoenician by nation--so called as inhabiting the Phoenician tract of Syria. Juvenal uses the same term, as was remarked by Justin Martyr and Tertullian. Matthew (Mt 15:22) calls her "a woman of Canaan"--a more intelligible description to his Jewish readers (compare Jud 1:30, 32, 33). and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter--"She cried unto Him…Read the comment

Topics related to Mark 7:26

• Demons
• Faith
• Greece
• Jesus, the Christ
• Miracles
• Prayer
• Sidon
• Syria
• Syro-Phoenician
• Tyre

In the dictionaries

• Greek
• Greek, Grecian, Hellenist
• Abundance
• Covetousness
• Hold
• String
• Syrophenician
• Grecians; Greeks
• Jesus Christ
• Mark, the Gospel According to

Commentaries on Mark 7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings