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Ham (son of Noah)

Ham,[a] (in Hebrew: ‫ חָ ם‬Hebrew pronunciation: [ˈħam]) according to the Table of Nations in the Book of Genesis, was the
Ham (Cham)
second son of Noah[1] and the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan.[2][3]

Ham's descendants are interpreted by Flavius Josephus and others as having populated Africa and adjoining parts of
Asia. The Bible refers to Egypt as "the land of Ham" in Psalm 78:51; 105:23,27; 106:22; 1 Chronicles 4:40.

Contents
Etymology
Ham in the Bible
Curse of Canaan
Jubilees
Children Cush
Death Mizraim
Family tree Phut
See also Canaan

Notelist Parent(s) Noah

References

Etymology
Since the 17th century a number of suggestions have been made that relate the name Ham to a Hebrew word for "burnt", "black" or "hot", to the Egyptian
word ḥm for "servant" or the word ḥm for "majesty" or the Egyptian word kmt for "Egypt".[4] A 2004 review of David Goldenberg's The Curse of Ham: Race
and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity and Islam (2003) states that Goldenberg "argues persuasively that the biblical name Ham bears no relationship
at all to the notion of blackness and as of now is of unknown etymology."[5]

Ham in the Bible

Genesis 5:32 indicates that Noah became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth from the age of 500
years old, but does not list in detail their specific years. (Noah was 600 years old at the time of the
flood in Genesis 7.) An incident involving Ham is related in Genesis 9:20-27.

And Noah began to be an husbandman, and planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine,
and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan,
saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem and Japheth
took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the
nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's
nakedness.

And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done unto him. And
he said, This illustration from the Nuremberg Chronicle uses the
spelling "Cham".
Cursed be Canaan;
A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

And he said,

Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem;

And let Canaan be his servant.
God enlarge Japheth,
And let him dwell in the tents of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.

—Revised Version

Curse of Canaan
What is commonly known as "The Curse of Ham" was not bestowed upon Ham himself, rather Noah indirectly cursed him via his son Canaan.

The Talmud deduces two possible explanations, one attributed to Rabbi Abba Arika and one to Rabbi Samuel, for what Ham did to Noah to warrant the
curse.[6]

According to Abba Arika, Ham castrated Noah on the basis that, since Noah cursed Ham by his fourth son Canaan, Ham must have injured Noah with
respect to a fourth son. Emasculating him thus deprived Noah of the possibility of a fourth son.

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According to Samuel, Ham sodomized Noah, a judgment that he based on analogy with another biblical incident in which
the phrase "and he saw" is used. In Genesis 34:2 (https://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0134.htm#2) it reads, "And
when Shechem the son of Hamor saw her (Dinah), he took her and lay with her and defiled her." With regard to Ham and
Noah, Genesis 9 reads, "22] And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren
without. [23] And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and
covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness."[7]
According to this argument, similar abuse must have happened each time that the Bible uses the same language. The
Talmud concludes that, in fact, "both indignities were perpetrated."

Although the story can be taken literally, in more recent times, some scholars have suggested that Ham may have had
intercourse with his father's wife.[8] Under this interpretation, Canaan is cursed as the "product of Ham's illicit union."[9]

Jubilees

The chronological scheme of the non-biblical Book of Jubilees has Ham born in the year 1209 A.M. — two years after Shem, Ivan Ksenofontov. The
three before Japheth, and 99 before the flood. It gives the name of his wife who also survived the flood as Na'eltama'uk. damnation of Ham
After his youngest son Canaan was cursed in 1321 A.M., he left Mount Ararat and built a city named for his wife on the south
side of the mountain. In 1569 A.M., he received a third division of the earth along with his two brothers for his inheritance:
everything west of the Nile River, and to the south of Gadir. In 1639 A.M. when the nations were scattered following the failure of the Tower of Babel, Ham
and his children journeyed to their allotment, with the exception of Canaan, who settled in Shem's territory, thus receiving another curse.

According to Jubilees 10:29–34, this second curse is attributed to Canaan's steadfast refusal to join his elder brothers in Ham's allotment beyond the Nile,
and instead "squatting" within the inheritance of Shem, on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, the region later promised to Abraham:

And Canaan saw the land of Lebanon to the river of Egypt, that it was very good, and he went not into the land of his inheritance to the west (that
is to) the sea, and he dwelt in the land of Lebanon, eastward and westward from the border of Jordan and from the border of the sea. And Ham,
his father, and Cush and Mizraim his brothers said unto him: 'Thou hast settled in a land which is not thine, and which did not fall to us by lot: do
not do so; for if thou dost do so, thou and thy sons will fall in the land and (be) accursed through sedition; for by sedition ye have settled, and by
sedition will thy children fall, and thou shalt be rooted out for ever. Dwell not in the dwelling of Shem; for to Shem and to his sons did it come by
their lot. Cursed art thou, and cursed shalt thou be beyond all the sons of Noah, by the curse by which we bound ourselves by an oath in the
presence of the holy judge, and in the presence of Noah our father.' But he did not hearken unto them, and dwelt in the land of Lebanon from
Hamath to the entering of Egypt, he and his sons until this day. And for this reason that land is named Canaan. – Jubilees 10:29–34.

Death
A tomb in Gharibwal, Pakistan has been claimed by local residents to be the site of Ham's burial since 1891, when Hafiz Sham-us-Din of Gulyana, Gujrat
claimed Ham had revealed this to him in a dream. A plaque on the tomb since erected over the 78 foot long grave site states that Ham, locally revered as a
prophet, was buried there after living 536 years.[10][11]

Family tree
Ham

Cush Mizraim Put Canaan

Seba Havilah Sabtah Raamah Sabtechah Nimrod

Sheba Dedan

Ludim Anamim Lehabim Naphtuhim Pathrusim Casluhim Caphtorim

Sidon Heth Jebusites Amorites Girgashites Hivites Arkites Sinites Arvadites Zemarites Hamathite

See also
Noach (parsha)
Sons of Noah
Hamites

Notelist
a. Hebrew: ‫חָ ם‬, Modern: H̱am, Tiberian: Ḥām; Greek Χαμ Kham, Ge'ez: ካም Kam; Arabic: ‫ﺣﺎم‬, Ḥām

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References
1. Bennett, William Henry (1911). "Ham (biblical)" (https://en.wikisource.or
g/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Ham_(biblical)). In
Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 12 (11th ed.).
Cambridge University Press. p. 868.
2. David Noel Freedman, Allen C. Myers, Astrid B. Beck, Eerdmans
dictionary of the Bible, (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing: 2000), p. 543
3. Stanley E. Porter, Craig A. Evans, The Scrolls and the Scriptures,
(Continuum International Publishing Group: 1997), p. 377
4. Goldenberg, David M. (2005). "Was Ham Black?". The Curse of Ham:
Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (https://books.
google.com/books?id=iTyJ3HiNOAsC&pg=PA144#v=onepage&q=burnt%
20swarthy%20black&f=false) (New ed.). Princeton University Press.
p. 144. ISBN 978-0691123707.
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5. Levine, Molly Myerowitz (2004). "David M. Goldenberg, The Curse of
Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam" (http://b
mcr.brynmawr.edu/2004/2004-02-53.html). Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
Retrieved 2016-09-08. "Through a very thorough, often highly technical
linguistic analysis, G[oldenberg] administers a telling blow to traditional
derivations of the name Ham from a semantic field of heat, darkness, or
blackness, and demonstrates that these all turn on a misunderstanding of
ancient Hebrew linguistics that can be traced back to no earlier than the
first century. Contrary to the assumptions of Islamic, Christian, and
Jewish exegesis, G[oldenberg] argues persuasively that the biblical name
Ham bears no relationship at all to the notion of blackness and as of now
is of unknown etymology."
6. Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 70a.
7. Genesis 9:20-27
8. For example, Frederick W. Bassett, "Noah's nakedness and the curse of
Canaan: A case of incest?" VT 21 [1971] pp. 232–237.
9. John S. Bergsma and Scott Hahn, "Noah's nakedness and the curse on
Canaan (Genesis 9:20–27)," JBL 124 [2005] p. 39.
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7/foo.htm) Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20151222104140/http://j
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