Cham חָם

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Cham
חָם
Transliterationcham
Strong's numberH2526 (H2526G, H2526H)
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechname of a man
GlossHam
Occurrences16 in 15 verses
Most frequent inGenesis (8)

Cham (Hebrew חָם, Strong's H2526) is a name of a man in the Old Testament, glossed “Ham”. It occurs 16 times.

Definition

H2526G: Ham

A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.5.32;
son of: Noah (H5146);
brother of: Shem (H8035) and Japheth (H3315);
father of: Canaan (H3667), Cush (H3568), Egypt (H4714) and Put (H6316)
§ Ham = "hot"
1) 2nd son of Noah, father of Canaan and of various peoples which were inhabitants of southern lands
2) in late usage, a collective name for Egyptians
n pr loc

H2526H: Ham

§ Ham = "hot"
southern lands continaing the descendants of Ham

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVham (16)
BSBham (15), hamites (1)

Verses

Every verse with Cham, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

1 Chronicles

Psalms

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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