Bible dictionaries

Nicanor

What Bible dictionaries say about “Nicanor”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Nicanor - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

Conqueror, one of the seven deacons appointed in the apostolic Church (Acts 6:1-6). Nothing further is known of him.

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

(conqueror).

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.)
One of the first seven deacons. Acts 6:5.

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3