Jannæus, Alexander, the second of the Asmonæan kings of Judea; reigned in the beginning of the century before Christ; insulted the Jews by profaning the rites of their religion, and roused a hostility against him which was appeased only by his death, the news of which was received with expressions of triumphant exultation.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Janizaries * Jannes and Jambres