Bible Location
Meaning: hot; heat; brown · 3 cross references · Modern-day map available
This Ham entry should be read as a territorial or ethnographic extension of the name rather than the patriarch himself. It is important where biblical geography preserves older ethnic memory in place-related language. First appears in Ps 105:23.1
Place meaning
hot; heat; brown
Coordinates
30.11, 31.34
First appears
Ps 105:23
AI summary: Ham on this page functions less as biography and more as a broad ancestral-geographic label. Biblical usage can extend a patriarchal name into peoples and lands, and this record reflects that wider pattern. The cross references present Ham as a name whose significance flows into ethnographic and regional memory beyond the individual figure.1
Place meaning
hot; heat; brown
Latitude
30.11
Longitude
31.34
Bible references
3
Warm, hot, and hence the south; also an Egyptian word meaning “black”, the youngest son of Noah (Gen. 5:32; comp. 9:22, 24). The curse pronounced by Noah against Ham, properly against Canaan his fourth son, was accomplished when the Jews subsequently exterminated the Canaanites.
One of the most important facts recorded in Gen. 10 is the foundation of the earliest monarchy in Babylonia by Nimrod the grandson of Ham (6, 8, 10). The primitive Babylonian empire was thus Hamitic, and of a cognate race with the primitive inhabitants of Arabia and of Ethiopia. (See ACCAD.)
The race of Ham were the most energetic of all the descendants of Noah in the early times of the post-diluvian world. 3
Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated. It is presented as historical source material, not as ai-BIBLE’s language, interpretation, or endorsement.
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.