How to Pronounce Syro-Phoenician
SIHR-o+fee-NIHSH-ih-uhn
Syro-Phoenician is pronounced SIHR-o+fee-NIHSH-ih-uhn: five syllables, stress on the first and third. Also heard: SYR-roh-feh-NISH-uhn.
What is Syro-Phoenician?
occurs only in (Mark 7:26) The word denoted perhaps a mixed race, half Phoenicians and half Syrians; (or the Phoenicians in this region may have been called Syro-phoenicians because they belonged to the Roman province of Syria, and were thus distinguished from the Phoenicians who lived in Africa, or the Carthaginians.—ED.)
Adapted from Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863), public domain.
Also pronounced
SYR-roh-feh-NISH-uhn