Bible Names

Ham: meaning of the name

Ham means “hot; heat; brown.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Ham in Hebrew and Greek

הָם H1990

Hâm (hawm) — Ham, a region of Palestine

of uncertain derivation;

חָם H2526

Châm (khawm) — Cham, a son of Noah; also (as a patronymic) his descendants or their country

the same as H2525 (חָם); hot (from the tropical habitat);

Who named Ham in the Bible

Places named Ham

Ham in Scripture

“Ham” appears in 16 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 5:32

    And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

  • Genesis 6:10

    And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

  • Genesis 7:13

    In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

  • Genesis 9:18

    And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.

  • Genesis 9:22

    And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

  • Genesis 10:1

    Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

  • Genesis 10:6

    And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

  • Genesis 10:20

    These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.