Bible Names H-M

Ham in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(hot; sunburnt). 1. The name of one of the three sons of Noah, apparently the second in age. (B.C. 2448.) Of the history of Ham nothing is related except his irreverence to his father and the curse which that patriarch pronounced. The sons of Ham are stated, to have been "Cush and Mizraim and Phut and Canaan." Ge 10:6 comp. 1Chr 1:8 Egypt is...

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Haman in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(of Persian origin), magnificent, the name of the vizier (i.e., the prime minister) of the Persian king Ahasuerus (Esther 3:1, etc.). He is called an "Agagite," which seems to denote that he was descended from the royal family of the Amalekites, the bitterest enemies of the Jews, as Agag was one of the titles of the Amalekite kings. He or...

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Hammedatha in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Haman's father. Medatha with the definite article, ha-. (See ESTHER; HAMAN.) In Persian, it means "double"....

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Hamor in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ha'-mor (chamor, "an ass"; Emmor): Hamor was the father of Shechem from whom Jacob bought a piece of ground on his return from Paddan-aram for one hundred pieces of silver (Gen 33:19), and the burial place of Joseph when his body was removed from Egypt to Canaan (Josh 24:32). "The men of Hamor" were inhabitants of Shechem, and suffered a great...

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Hakkoz in Naves Topical Bible

-A priest 1Ch 24:10 -Called Koz in Ezr 2:61; Ne 3:4,21...

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Ham in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(hot; sunburnt). 1. The name of one of the three sons of Noah, apparently the second in age. (B.C. 2448.) Of the history of Ham nothing is related except his irreverence to his father and the curse which that patriarch pronounced. The sons of Ham are stated, to have been "Cush and Mizraim and Phut and Canaan." Ge 10:6 comp. 1Chr 1:8 Egypt is...

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Hammedatha in Hitchcock's Bible Names

he that troubles the law...

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Hamor in Naves Topical Bible

-(The father of Shechem) -Jacob buys a piece of property from Ge 33:19; Jos 24:32; Jud 9:28 -Murdered by the sons of Jacob Ge 34:26; 49:6 -Called EMMOR Ac 7:16...

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Hakkoz in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(thorn), a priest, the chief of the seventh course in the service of the sanctuary, as appointed by David. 1Ch 24:10 In Ezr 2:61 and Nehe 3:4,21 the name occurs again as Koz in the Authorized Version....

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Haman in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

(See ESTHER.) Son of Hammedatha "the Agagite," probably of Amalekite origin (Numbers 24:7; Numbers 24:20; 1 Samuel 15:8). The Amalekites had from the first pursued Israel with unrelenting spite (Exodus 17:16, margin; Deuteronomy 25:17- 19), and were consequently all but exterminated by Israel (1 Samuel 15:8; 1 Samuel 30:17; 2 Samuel 8:12; 1 Chr...

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