Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H2526
חָם
Chamkhawm
Ham
16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Châm
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2526is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2526
Cham, a son of Noah; also (as a patronymic) his descendants or their country
The King James renders it: Ham.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Cham is rendered "Ham". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Nine of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 5:32After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 5:32חָ֥ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Nine of the word's sixteen uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Ham13
- and Ham3
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- חָ֥ם3
- חָ֑ם3
- חָֽם׃3
- חָ֔ם2
- וְחָ֥ם1
- וְחָ֣ם1
- וְחָ֕ם1
- חָ֚ם1
- חָ֣ם1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)8HNpm
- proper noun (a name)5HNpl
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)3HC/Npm
Genesis
nine uses
After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- חָ֥םchamproper noun (a name)tagged: Ham
And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- חָ֥םchamproper noun (a name)tagged: Ham
On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—
- וְחָ֥םvechamconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Ham
The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.
- וְחָ֣םvechamconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Ham
- וְחָ֕םvechamconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Ham
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.
- חָ֚םchamproper noun (a name)tagged: Ham
This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.
- חָ֣םchamproper noun (a name)tagged: Ham
The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
- חָ֑םchamproper noun (a name)tagged: Ham
These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.
- חָ֔םchamproper noun (a name)tagged: Ham
1 Chronicles
three uses
The sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- חָ֥םchamproper noun (a name)tagged: Ham
The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
- חָ֑םchamproper noun (a name)tagged: Ham
There they found rich, good pasture, and the land was spacious, peaceful, and quiet; for some Hamites had lived there formerly.
- חָ֔םchamproper noun (a name)tagged: Ham
Psalms
four uses
He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.
- חָֽם׃champroper noun (a name)tagged: Ham
Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.
- חָֽם׃champroper noun (a name)tagged: Ham
They performed His miraculous signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
- חָֽם׃champroper noun (a name)tagged: Ham
wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
- חָ֑םchamproper noun (a name)tagged: Ham
The letters
Gematria 48· 608 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.