Ham

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

1. Son of Noah

• Genesis 5:32 After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
• Genesis 9:18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.
• Genesis 9:24 When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,
• 1 Chronicles 1:4 The sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Provokes his father's wrath and is cursed by him

• Genesis 9:18–27 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan. These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated. Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard. But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and…

His children

• Genesis 10:6–20 The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; so it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mi…
• 1 Chronicles 1:8–16 The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth. Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtu…

2. Patronymic of the descendants of Ham

• 1 Chronicles 4:40 There they found rich, good pasture, and the land was spacious, peaceful, and quiet; for some Hamites had lived there formerly.
• Psalm 78:51 He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.
• Psalm 105:23 Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.
• Psalm 105:27 They performed His miraculous signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
• Psalm 106:22 wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.

3. Place where Chedorlaomer struck down the Zuzims

• Genesis 14:5 In the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh-kiriathaim,