Ham - Biblical Meaning of ham in Eastons Bible Dictionary (Bible History Online)

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Ham
warm, hot, and hence the south; also an Egyptian word meaning "black", the youngest son of Noah (Gen. 5:32; compare 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 T0000060.) The race of Ham were the most energetic of all the descendants of Noah in the early times of the post-diluvian world. Bibliography Information
Easton, Matthew George. M.A., D.D., "Biblical Meaning for 'ham' Eastons Bible Dictionary".
bible-history.com - Eastons; 1897.

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