αὐτῆς

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 αὐτῆς

   au-TÊS

   of her
2. sentence🔊 ἡ δὲ γυνὴ ἦν Ἑλληνὶς Συροφοινίκισσα τῷ γένει καὶ ἠρώτα αὐτὸν ἵνα τὸ δαιμόνιον ἐκβάλῃ ἐκ τῆς θυγατρὸς αὐτῆς

   hê de gy-NE ÊN hel-lê-NIS sy-ro-phoi-NI-kis-sa tôi GE-nei kai ê-RÔ-ta au-TON HI-na to dai-MO-ni-on ek-BA-lê ek tês thy-ga-TROS au-TÊS

   the and woman was a Greek {woman} a Syrophoenician in race and was asking him that the demon might cast out out of the daughter of her

Exegesis

The prepositional phrase ek tēs thugatros autēs {ἐκ τῆς θυγατρός αὐτῆς | ek tês thugatrós autês} specifies the source from which the demon is to be expelled, her daughter, creating a tight syntactic link between the spiritual conflict and familial concern. In translation, the appositional structure is maintained by using a main clause with embedded descriptors for ethnicity, and the hina clause is rendered with an infinitive of purpose (“to cast out,” “to drive out”) for smoother English while preserving the sense of intentional request.