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Person

Ham

Mentioned in 14 verses across 3 books, first in 1 Chronicles 1:4. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).

In these stories

Noah and the Flood

In the Bible

All 2 verses in 1 Chronicles, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

1 Chronicles

1 Chronicles 1:4
The sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
1 Chronicles 1:8
The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

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Events

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

c. 2348 BC
The Great Flood beginsGenesis 7:6–17
c. 2348 BC
The Great FloodGenesis 7:6–8:19 · at Ararat
c. 2348 BC
Water covers the earthGenesis 7:18–24
c. 2347 BC
The flood subsidesGenesis 8:1–14 · at Ararat
c. 2347 BC
Leaving the ArkGenesis 8:15–19 · at Ararat
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.