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    Candace

    KAN-diss

    Meaning

    Queen; Pure; Incandescent

    Ethiopian/Greek origin · Girl · First in Acts

    What it points to

    Candace represents God's global reach — the gospel traveling from Jerusalem to the heart of Africa through one seeker's hunger for Scripture.

    Verse · King James Version

    “And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure.”

    Acts 8:27

    Most used in the 1980s (US records)

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