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# חָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2526

**Ham** — used 16 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Ham [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2526/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָם: n.pr.pers.m. loc. Ham [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2526/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.pers.m. and loc. (cf. Sab. חם Hal243)—𝔊 Χαμ:— Ham, 2nd son of Noah Gn 5:32; 6:10; 7:13; 9:18(×2) 1 Ch 1:4; called father of Canaan Gn 9:22 and of various peoples 10:1, 6, 20 1 Ch 1:8, cf. מִן־חָם הַיֹּשְׁבִים שָׁם 4:40; these peoples were inhabitants of southern lands, or related historically or politically to such inhabitants; v. כּוּשׁ, כְּנַעַן, מִצְרַיִם, פּוּט, etc. in late ψψ a name (coll.) for Egyptians:—אָֽהֳלֵי־ח׳ ψ 78:51; אֶרֶץ־ח׳ 105:23, 27; 106:22 (all ‖ מִצְרַיִם, exc. 105:27).—On historical significance, and attempts at etymol. v. Di Gen. ed. 6, chap. 10, especially pp. 165, 168 f., Hom SV i. 427 BuUrg. 323 WiedemannÄgypt. Gesch. i. 22.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Ham (9); of Ham (7).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 1:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.4/#tree)

נֹ֥חַ שֵׁ֖ם חָ֥ם וָיָֽפֶת׃ס

*Word for word:* Noah Shem Ham and Japheth

*JPS 1917:* Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

[1 Chronicles 1:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.8/#tree)

בְּנֵ֖י חָ֑ם כּ֥וּשׁ וּמִצְרַ֖יִם פּ֥וּט וּכְנָֽעַן׃

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Ham \[were\].Cush and Mizraim Put and Canaan

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2526.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2526/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).