חָם
Châm · khawm
Cham, a son of Noah; also (as a patronymic) his descendants or their country
Lexicon
Derivation: the same as H2525 (חָם); hot (from the tropical habitat);
Cham, a son of Noah; also (as a patronymic) his descendants or their country
- Cham, a son of Noah
- also, (as a patronymic) his descendants or their country
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Ham.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › water, chaos, the mighty deep
To separate and protect of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חָם above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
16 occurrences · 16 OT · 0 NT · 9 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of ham7 · 44%
- ham4 · 25%
- and ham4 · 25%
- for they of ham1 · 6%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.