Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:
A Phoenician at the time Phoenicia was part of the Roman province of Syria; or it may mean one of half Syrian and half Phoenician blood
(Mark 7:26).
Concise Bible Dictionary:
The designation of the woman whose daughter was possessed by a demon. She belonged to Phenice in Syria: the name embraced both these proper names. By birth she was a Greek, which here probably means simply “Gentile” (Mark 7:26). In Matthew 15:22 she is called “a woman of Canaan.”
Strong’s Dictionary of Greek Words:
Transliteration:
Surophoinissa
Phonic:
soo-rof-oy’-nis-sah
Meaning:
feminine of a compound of 4948 and the same as 5403; a Syro-phoenician woman, i.e. a female native of Phoenicia in Syria
Jackson’s Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names:
exalted palm
Potts’ Bible Proper Names:
Redness; purple:―Syrian woman from Phoenicia, Mark 7:26. {Rubedo; purpureus}