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Ham is a region in the Bible, its middle about 415 km (258 miles) south-west of Jerusalem. The King James Version names it in 4 verses, from Psalms 78:51 to Psalms 106:22. The King James Version also gives the name Ham to 1 other place, listed on this page.
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).
A town, named in 1 verse.
Ham is a region its middle about 415 km (258 miles) south-west of Jerusalem. BibleLectio shows it on a painted map of the Bible’s world, with every verse that names it.
The King James Version names Ham in 4 verses, in 1 book, from Psalms 78:51 to Psalms 106:22. It also gives the name Ham to 1 other place.