Ham
ham (cham; Cham):
1. The Youngest Son of Noah:
The youngest son of Noah, from whom sprang the western and
southwestern nations known to the Hebrews. His name first
occurs in Gen 5:32, where, as in 6:10 and elsewhere, it
occupies the second place. In Gen 9:18 Ham is described as
"the father of Canaan," to prepare the reader for 9:25-27,
where N...
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-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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(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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(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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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
fou...
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("hot".)
1. The Egyptian. frontKEM.) (Egypt is singularly the
land of Ham, Psalm 78:51; Psalm 105:23), "black"; the sun-
burnt and those whose soil is black, as Ethiopia means.
Father (i.e. ancestor) of Cush (Ethiopia), Mizraim (See
EGYPT), Phut (Libya), and Canaan. These mean races. not
individuals. Egypt being the first civilized was single...
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