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Nicolas

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(people’s victor). Native of Antioch. First a Jewish and then a Christian convert. One of the first seven deacons (Acts 6:5⁵And 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: (Acts 6:5)).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

A proselyte of Antioch, one of the seven chosen to look after the poor saints at Jerusalem (Acts 6:5⁵And 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: (Acts 6:5)).

Jackson’s Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names:

conqueror of the people (as a whole)