Dict: smith - HAM

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HAM - H>@ - (hot; sunburnt). The name of one of the three sons of Noah, apparently the second in age. (B.C. 2448.) Of the history of Ham nothing is related except his irreverence to his father and the curse which that patriarch pronounced. The sons of Ham are stated, to have been "Cush and Mizraim and Phut and Canaan." kjv@Genesis:10:6) comp. 1Chr 1:8 Egypt is recognized as the "land of Ham" in the Bible. kjv@Psalms:78:51 kjv@Psalms:105:23 kjv@Psalms:106:22 ) The other settlements of the sons of Ham are discussed under their respective names. The three most illustrious Hamite nations
the Cushites, the Phoenicians and the Egyptians
were greatly mixed with foreign peoples. Their architecture has a solid grandeur that we look for in vain elsewhere. According to the present text, kjv@Genesis:14:5) Chedorlaomer and his allies smote the Zuzim in a place called Ham, probably in the territory of the Ammonites (Gilead), east of the Jordan.

HAMAN - H>@ - (magnificent), the chief minister or vizier of King Ahasuerus. kjv@Esther:3:1) (B.C. 473.) After the failure of his attempt to cut off all the Jews in the Persian empire, he was hanged on the gallows which he had erected for Mordecai. The Targum and Josephus interpret the inscription of him
the Agagite
as signifying that he was of Amalekitish descent. The Jews hiss whenever his name is mentioned on the day of Purim.

HAMATH - H>@ - (fortress), the principal city of upper Syria, was situated in the valley of the Orontes, which it commanded from the low screen of hills which forms the water-shed between the source of the Orontes and Antioch. The Hamathites were a Hamitic race, and are included among the descendants of Canaan. kjv@Genesis:10:18) Nothing appears of the power of Hamath until the time of David. (2 Samuel kjv@8:9) Hamath seems clearly to have been included in the dominions of Solomon. (Kings:4:21-24) The "store-cities" which Solomon "built in Hamath," ( kjv@2Chronicles:8:4) were perhaps staples for trade. In the Assyrian inscriptions of the time of Ahab (B.C. 900) Hamath appears as a separate power, in alliance with the Syrians of Damascus, the Hittites and the Phoenicians. About three-quarters of a century later Jeroboam the Second "recovered Hamath." ( kjv@2Kings:14:28) Soon afterwards the Assyrians took it, ( kjv@2Kings:18:34 kjv@2Kings:19:13) etc., and from this time it ceased to be a place of much importance. Antiochus Epiphanes changed its name to Epiphaneia. The natives, however, called it Hamath even in St. Jerome’s time, and its present name, Hamah , is but slightly altered from the ancient form.

HAMATHZOBAH - H>@ - (fortress of Zobah), ( kjv@2Chronicles:8:3) has been conjectured to be the same as Hamath. But the name Hamath
- Zobah would seem rather suited to another Hamath which was distinguished from the "Great Hamath" by the suffix "Zobah."

HAMATHITE, THE - H>@ - one of the families descended from Canaan, named last in the list. kjv@Genesis:10:18; kjv@1Chronicles:1:16)

HAMMATH - H>@ - (warm springs), one of the fortified cities in the territory allotted to Naphtali. kjv@Joshua:19:35) It was near Tiberias, one mile distant, and had its name Chammath, "hot baths," because it contained those of Tiberias. In the list of Levitical cities given out of Naphtali, kjv@Joshua:21:32) the name of this place seems to be given as HAMMOTH

- DOR.

HAMMEDATHA - H>@ - (double), father of the infamous Haman. kjv@Esther:3:1 kjv@Esther:3:10 kjv@Esther:8:5; 9;24)

HAMMELECH - H>@ - lit. "the king, " unnecessarily rendered in the Authorized Version as a proper name. kjv@Jeremiah:36:26 kjv@Jeremiah:38:6)

HAMMOLEKETH - H>@ - (the queen), a daughter of Machir and sister of Gilead. ( kjv@1Chronicles:7:17-18) (B.C. between 1706 and 1491.)

HAMMON - H>@ - (warm springs). A city in Asher, kjv@Joshua:19:28) apparently not far from Zidon-rabbah. A city allotted out of the tribe of Naphtali to the Levites, ( kjv@1Chronicles:6:76) and answering to the somewhat similar names HAMMATH and HAMMOTH

- DOR in Joshua.

HAMMOTHDOR - H>@ - (dwelling of the warm springs). HAMMATH

HAMONAH - H>@ - (multitude), the name of a city mentioned in Ezekiel. kjv@Ezekiel:39:16)

HAMONGOG - H>@ - (the multitude of God), The valley of, the name to be bestowed on the ravine or glen, previously known as "the ravine of the passengers on the east of the sea," after the burial there of "God and all his multitude." kjv@Ezekiel:39:11 kjv@Ezekiel:39:15)

HAMOR - H>@ - (an ass), a Hivite who at the time of the entrance of Jacob on Palestine was prince of the land and city of Shechem. kjv@Genesis:33:19 kjv@Genesis:34:2-4-6-8 kjv@Genesis:34:13,18-20,24-26) (B.C. 1737.) DINAH

HAMUEL - H>@ - (heat , i.e. wrath, of God), a man of Simeon, of the family of Shaul. ( kjv@1Chronicles:4:26)

HAMUL - H>@ - (pitied), the younger son of Pharez, Judah’s son by Tamar. kjv@Genesis:46:12; kjv@1Chronicles:2:5) (B.C. between 1706-1688.)

HAMULITES, THE - H>@ - the family of the preceding. kjv@Numbers:26:21)

HAMUTAL - H>@ - (akin to the dew), daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah; one of the wives of King Josiah. ( kjv@2Kings:23:31 kjv@2Kings:24:18; kjv@Jeremiah:52:1) (B.C. 632-619.)