Ham
Male
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.
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Key verses
Psalms 78:51
and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
Psalms 105:23
Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob lived in the land of Ham.
Genesis 7:13
In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship—
Genesis 10:6
The sons of Ham were: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
Genesis 9:22
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
Genesis 10:1
Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.