Ham
הָ֑םStrong’s H5983ham
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.”
Meaning
- 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.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 19:38And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
- Numbers 21:24And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
- Deuteronomy 2:19And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.
- Deuteronomy 2:37Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us.
- Deuteronomy 3:11For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
- Deuteronomy 3:16And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
All 98 verses, by book
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.