Hyrcanus
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Hyrcanus [1]
hẽr - kā´nus ( Ὑρκανός , Hurkanós ): "Son of Tobias, a man of great dignity," who had a large sum of money deposited in the Temple of Jerusalem when Heliodorus was sent to confiscate it in 187 bc ( 2 Maccabees 3:11 ff). Opinions differ as to the identity of this Hyrcanus. with the grandson of Tobias whose birth and history are related at considerable length by Josephus ( Ant. , Xii , iv, 6ff), or with another of the same name mentioned in Ant , Xiii , viii, 4. See Asmoneans; Maccabaeus .
