People of the Bible
Ham
Family
In the story
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length.
- The Great Flood · 2347 BC
- The Great Flood begins · 2347 BC
- Water covers the earth · 2347 BC
- The flood subsides · 2346 BC
- Leaving the Ark · 2346 BC
- Noah gets drunk and Canaan is cursed · 2345 BC
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.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 14 verses
- Genesis
- 5:32, 6:10, 7:13, 9:18, 9:22, 10:1, 10:6, 10:20
- 1 Chronicles
- 1:4, 1:8
- Psalms
- 78:51, 105:23, 105:27, 106:22
The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.