Ham
חָםStrong’s H2526cham
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Cham is the Hebrew word usually translated “ham”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.”
Meaning
- 2nd son of Noah, father of Canaan and of various peoples which were inhabitants of southern lands
- In late usage, a collective name for Egyptians
- § Ham = "hot"
How it's translated
- ham 13
- and ham 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 8
- Psalms 4
- 1 Chronicles 3
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 6:10And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- Genesis 7:13In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
- Genesis 9:18And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
- Genesis 9:22And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
- Genesis 10:1Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
- Genesis 10:6And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
Hebrew dictionary
חָם cham · Ham
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.5.32; son of: Noah (H5146); brother of: Shem (H8035) and Japheth (H3315); father of: Canaan (H3667), Cush (H3568), Egypt (H4714) and Put (H6316) § Ham = "hot" 1) 2nd son of Noah, father of Canaan and of various peoples which were inhabitants of southern lands 2) in late usage, a collective name for Egyptians n pr loc
חָם cham · Ham
§ Ham = "hot" southern lands continaing the descendants of Ham
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.