ak´os (ἉκχωÌÏ‚, HakchoÌ„Ìs): The grandfather of Eupolemus, whom Judas Maccabeus sent with others to Rome in 161 bc, to negotiate a “league of amity and confederacy†(1 Macc 8:17). The name occurs In the Old Testament as Hakkoz (הקּוץ, hakÌ£kÌ£oc), who was a priest in the reign of David ().