Person
Ham
- Attested
- 2348–2346 BC
Warm, hot, and hence the south; also an Egyptian word meaning “black”, the youngest son of Noah (Gen. 5:32; comp. 9:22, 24).
Family & connections
Line of descent
11 generations back to God, following the father where one is recorded.
Descendants
Three generations.
Events
- 2348–2347 BC The Great Flood
- 2348 BC The Great Flood begins
- 2348 BC Water covers the earth
- 2347 BC Leaving the Ark
- 2347 BC The flood subsides
- 2346 BC Noah gets drunk and Canaan is cursed
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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.
In Scripture
14 verses in 3 books
- Genesis5:32; 6:10; 7:13; 9:18, 22; 10:1, 6, 20
- 1 Chronicles1:4, 8
- Psalms78:51; 105:23, 27; 106:22
Source: Theographic Bible Metadata (CC-BY-SA-4.0)