Bible Names

Nicanor: meaning of the name

Nicanor means “a conqueror; victorious.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Nicanor in Hebrew and Greek

Νικάνωρ G3527

Nikánōr — victorious; Nicanor, a Christian

probably from G3528 (νικάω);

Who named Nicanor in the Bible

Nicanor in Scripture

“Nicanor” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • Acts 6:5

    And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch: