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1. The son of Patroclus, “one of the king’s chief friends” (2 Macc 8:9) and a Syrian general under Antiochus IV Epiphanes and Demetrius Soter. This general may have been the supreme commander over Ptolemy and Gorgias in Lysias’s first campaign against Judas Maccabeus (1 Macc 3:38ff.) during the reign of Antiochus IV Epiphanes. He was slain in the battle at Adasa and Beth-horon (161 BC). According to 2 Maccabees, Judas hung Nicanor’s head from the citadel as a clear proof of the Lord’s victory (15:35).
2. One of the seven chosen by the early church to supervise the daily distribution to the poor saints in Jerusalem (Acts 6:5).