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Strong's #2526: Cham (pronounced khawm)

the same as 2525; hot (from the tropical habitat); Cham, a son of Noah; also (as a patronymic) his descendants or their country:--Ham.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

châm

Ham = "hot"

1) 2nd son of Noah, father of Canaan and of various peoples which were inhabitants of southern lands (noun proper masculine)

2) in late usage, a collective name for Egyptians (noun proper masculine)

3) the place where Chedorlaomer smote the Zuzim, probably in the territory of Ammonites (Gilead) east of the Jordan (noun proper locative)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition



Usage:

This word is used 16 times:

Genesis 5:32: "Shem, Ham, and Japheth."
Genesis 6:10: "Shem, Ham, and Japheth."
Genesis 7:13: "day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah,"
Genesis 9:18: "the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father"
Genesis 9:18: "Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father"
Genesis 9:22: " And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told"
Genesis 10:1: "of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after"
Genesis 10:6: "And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan."
Genesis 10:20: "These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations."
1 Chronicles 1:4: "Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth."
1 Chronicles 1:8: "The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan."
1 Chronicles 4:40: "and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham there of old."
Psalms 78:51: "the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:"
Psalms 105:23: "and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham."
Psalms 105:27: "his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham."
Psalms 106:22: "Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea."









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