Ham
הָ֑םStrong’s H1990ham
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Ham is the Hebrew word usually translated “ham”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“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,”
Meaning
- Ham = "hot" or "sunburnt"
How it's translated
- in ham 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
הָ֑ם ham · Ham
Ham = "hot" or "sunburnt" the place where Chedorlaomer and his allies smote the Zuzim, probably in the territory of the Ammonites, east of the Jordan; site uncertain Another name of am.mon (עַמּוֹן "Ammon" H5983)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ham” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HAM, noun
The inner or hind part of the knee; the inner angle of the joint which unites the thigh and the leg of an animal. Hence,
- The thigh of a beast, particularly of a hog, whether salted and cured or not.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.