Nicanor

Smith’s Bible Dictionary · William Smith, F. N. Peloubet, M. A. Peloubet

(conqueror).
  1. Son of Patroclus, 2 Macc. 8:9, a general who was engaged in the Jewish wars under Antiochus Epiphanes and Demetrius I. 1 Macc. 3:38; 4; 7:26,49. (B.C. 160.)
  2. One of the first seven deacons. Acts 6:5.

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