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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 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.

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

  • Gen.5: And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
  • Gen.6: And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
  • Gen.7: In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
  • Gen.9: And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
  • Gen.9: And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
  • Gen.10: Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
  • Gen.10: And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
  • Gen.10: These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
  • 1Chr.1: Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
  • 1Chr.1: The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
  • Ps.78: And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
  • Ps.105: Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
  • Ps.105: They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
  • Ps.106: Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.