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Ham [a] (in Hebrew: חָם), according to the Table of Nations in the Book of Genesis, was the second son of Noah [1] and the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan. [2] [3] Ham's descendants are interpreted by Josephus and others as having populated Africa. The Bible refers to Egypt as "the land of Ham" in Psalm 78:51; 105:23, 27; 106:22; 1 ...
The 2nd century Targum Onqelos has Ham gossiping about his father's drunken disgrace "in the street" (a reading which has a basis in the original Hebrew), so that being held up to public mockery was what had angered Noah; as the Cave of Treasures (late 6th – early 7th century) puts it, "Ham laughed at his father's shame and did not cover it ...
The Generations of Noah, also called the Table of Nations or Origines Gentium, [1] is a genealogy of the sons of Noah, according to the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 10:9), and their dispersion into many lands after the Flood, [2] focusing on the major known societies.
Phut or Put (Hebrew: פּוּט Pūṭ; Septuagint Greek Φουδ Phoud) is the third son of Ham [1] (one of the sons of Noah), in the biblical Table of Nations (Genesis 10:6; cf. 1 Chronicles 1:8). The name Put (or Phut) is used in the Bible for Ancient Libya, but a few scholars proposed the Land of Punt known from Ancient Egyptian annals. [2]
According to the Hebrew Bible, the Zuzim or Zuzites (Hebrew: זוּזִים , Zūzīm) were a tribe who lived in Ham, a land east of the Jordan River between Bashan and Moab. [1] The etymology of the name is unknown, but may derive from the Hebrew zīz ( זִיז ) which roughly translates to "moving things"/"things which move" (perhaps ...
Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle, showing Shem, Ham and Japheth over their corners of the world. Hippolytus of Rome, in his Diamerismos (c. 234, existing in numerous Latin and Greek copies), [3] made another attempt to assign ethnicities to the names in Genesis 10.
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Raamah (Hebrew: רַעְמָה , Raʿmh) is a name found in the Torah, meaning "lofty" or "exalted", and possibly "thunder".. The name is first mentioned as the fourth son of Cush, who is the son of Ham, who is the son of Noah in Gen. 10:7, and later appears as a country that traded with the Phoenician city-state of Tyre, in Ezekiel 27:22.