HAM

1. Burnt, swarthy, black, A son of Noah, Ge 5:32 7:13 9:18 10:1. The impiety revealed in his conduct towards his father, drew upon him, or rather, according to the Bible statement, on his son Canaan, a prophetic malediction, Ge 9:20-27. Ham was the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut, and Canaan, that is, the ancestor of the Canaanites, Southern Arabians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, and the Africans in general, Ge 10:6-20. 2. A poetical name for Egypt, Ps 78:51 106:22. 3. An unknown place of the Zuzim, Ge 14:5.

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Ham. Ham
Warm, hot, and hence the south; also an Egyptian word meaning “black”, the youngest son of Noah (Gen. 5:32; comp. 9:22,24). The curse pronounced by Noah against Ham, properly against Canaan his fourth son, was accomplished when the Jews subsequently exterminated the Canaanites.

One of the most important facts recorded in Gen. 10 is the foundation of the earliest monarchy in Babylonia by Nimrod the grandson of Ham (6, 8, 10). The primitive Babylonian empire was thus Hamitic, and of a cognate race with the primitive inhabitants of Arabia and of Ethiopia. (See ACCAD.)

The race of Ham were the most energetic of all the descendants of Noah in the early times of the post-diluvian world.

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Ham. hot; heat; brown

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HAM. 1. Son of Noah Ge 5:32; 9:18,24; 1Ch 1:4
* Provokes his father's wrath and is cursed by him Ge 9:18-27
* His children Ge 10:6-20; 1Ch 1:8-16

2. Patronymic of the descendants of Ham 1Ch 4:40; Ps 78:51; 105:23,27; 106:22 3. Place where Chedorlaomer struck down the Zuzims Ge 14:5

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son of Noah Ge 5:32; 7:13; 9:18; 10:6

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ham. Ham, n. a leg of pork cured, end of the thigh, house

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Ham (häm), n. Home. Chaucer.