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Ham

Mentioned in 14 verses across 3 books, first in Genesis 5:32. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).

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In the Bible

The first 10 of 14 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Genesis

  • Genesis 5:32

    After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

  • Genesis 6:10

    And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

  • Genesis 7:13

    On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—

  • Genesis 9:18

    The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.

  • Genesis 9:22

    And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.

  • Genesis 10:1

    This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.

  • Genesis 10:6

    The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

  • Genesis 10:20

    These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.

1 Chronicles

Events

Events the dataset lists Ham as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

  1. c. 2348 BC
    The Great Flood beginsGenesis 7:6–17
  2. c. 2348 BC
    The Great FloodGenesis 7:6–8:19 · at Ararat
  3. c. 2348 BC
    Water covers the earthGenesis 7:18–24
  4. c. 2347 BC
    The flood subsidesGenesis 8:1–14 · at Ararat
  5. c. 2347 BC
    Leaving the ArkGenesis 8:15–19 · at Ararat
  6. c. 2346 BC
    Noah gets drunk and Canaan is cursedGenesis 9:20–27

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

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](/gen#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.

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