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Ham

הָ֑םStrong’s H5983

ham

Appears in 98 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Ham is the Hebrew word usually translated “ammon”. It appears in 98 verses of the Old Testament.

“He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.”
Daniel 11:41 KJV
Meaning
  1. Ham = "hot" or "sunburnt"
How it's translated
  • ammon 105
  • and ammon 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Judges 27
  • 2 Samuel 15
  • 1 Chronicles 13
  • Jeremiah 10
  • Ezekiel 6
  • 2 Chronicles 5

18 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 98 verses, by book
Genesis 1
19:38
Numbers 1
21:24
Deuteronomy 4
2:192:373:113:16
1 Samuel 3
11:1112:1214:47
1 Kings 2
11:711:33
2 Kings 2
23:1324:2
Psalms 1
83:7
Isaiah 1
11:14
Daniel 1
11:41
Amos 1
1:13
Zephaniah 2
2:82:9
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,

  1. 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.