HAM
1. Burnt, swarthy, black, A son of Noah, Genesis 5:32; Genesis 1:7; Genesis 1:9; Genesis 1:10. The impiety revealed in his conduct towards his father, drew upon him, or rather, according to the Bible statement, on his son Canaan, a prophetic malediction, Genesis 1:9-27. Ham was the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut, and Canaan, that is, the ancestor of the Canaanites, Southern Arabians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, and the Africans in general, Genesis 1:10-20.
2. A poetical name for Egypt, Psalms 78:51; Psalms 1:106.
3. An unknown place of the Zuzim, Genesis 14:5.