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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
(hot). Third
son
of
Noah
(
Gen. 5:32; 9:22
32
And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Genesis 5:32)
22
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. (Genesis 9:22)
).
Father
of the Hamitic races (
Gen. 10:6
6
And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. (Genesis 10:6)
).
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
1.
One of
Noah
’s
three
sons: he was
father
of
Cush
,
Mizraim
,
Phut
, and
Canaan
. Mizraim and Phut, in their descendants, were mainly connected with
Egypt
. Nothing personally is known of Ham except his disrespectful behavior when his father was intoxicated, and which drew down
the curse
of Noah on Canaan (
Gen. 5:32
32
And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Genesis 5:32)
;
Gen. 6:10
10
And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Genesis 6:10)
;
Gen. 9:18,22
18
And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. (Genesis 9:18)
22
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. (Genesis 9:22)
;
Gen. 10:1,6,20
1
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood. (Genesis 10:1)
6
And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. (Genesis 10:6)
20
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations. (Genesis 10:20)
;
1 Chron. 1:4,8
4
Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (1 Chronicles 1:4)
8
The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. (1 Chronicles 1:8)
).
2.
The dwelling place of the above in Egypt was mostly designated “the land of Ham” (
Psa. 78:51
51
And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham: (Psalm 78:51)
;
Psa. 105:23,27
23
Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. (Psalm 105:23)
27
They showed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham. (Psalm 105:27)
;
Psa. 106:22
22
Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea. (Psalm 106:22)
).
3.
A place somewhere on the
east
of the
Dead
Sea
, where the
Zuzims
dwelt who were smitten by
Chedorlaomer
(
Gen. 14:5
5
And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim, (Genesis 14:5)
).
4.
The
Simeonites
in searching for pasture for their flocks in the
South
came to a place where they of Ham had dwelt of old (
1 Chron. 4:40
40
And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old. (1 Chronicles 4:40)
). Some suppose these to have been a
colony
from Egypt; others judge them to have been Canaanitish nomads.
Jackson’s
Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names
:
tumult: he raged (in Gen. 14:5) : hot (the same form is rendered "father-in-law")
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