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Ham in the Bible.

Noah's second son, the father of Cush, Mizraim (Egypt) and Canaan. The King James Version names Ham in 10 verses, from Genesis 5:32 to 1 Chronicles 1:8.

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Ham’s family.

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His family as Theographic Bible Metadata lists it; each name opens its own page.

Who Ham was.

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.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

All 10 verses that name Ham.

Genesis 8

  • Genesis 5:32And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
  • Genesis 6:10And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
  • Genesis 7:13In 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;
  • Genesis 9:18And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
  • Genesis 9:22And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
  • Genesis 10:1Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
  • Genesis 10:6And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
  • Genesis 10:20These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

1 Chronicles 2

Questions about Ham.

Who was Ham in the Bible?

Noah's second son, the father of Cush, Mizraim (Egypt) and Canaan. The King James Version names Ham in 10 verses, from Genesis 5:32 to 1 Chronicles 1:8.

Who was Ham’s father?

Noah.

Who were Ham’s children?

BibleLectio’s family tree lists Canaan, Cush, Mizraim and Phut.

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