fourth son, was accomplished when the Jews subsequently exterminated
the Canaanites.
One of the most important facts recorded in Genesis 10 is the foundation
of the earliest monarchy in Babylonia by Nimrod the grandson of Ham (6,
8, 10). The primitive Babylonian empire was thus Hamitic, and of a
cognate race with the primitive inhabitants of Arabia and of Ethiopia. (See
ACCAD.)
HAM
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Cush Mizraim Phut Caanan
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Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Ludim, Anamin, Lehabim, Sidom, Heth, Jesubite,
Raamah, Sabtechah Naphuthim, Pathrusim Amorite, Hivite, Arkite,
| Casluhim, Caphtorim Sinite, Arvadite, Zemarite
Sheba, Dedan | Hamathite
Philistim
The race of Ham were the most energetic of all the descendants of Noah in
the early times of the post-diluvian world.
- HAMAN (of Persian origin), magnificent, the name of the vizier (i.e., the
prime minister) of the Persian king Ahasuerus (Esther 3:1, etc.). He is
called an “Agagite,” which seems to denote that he was descended from the
royal family of the Amalekites, the bitterest enemies of the Jews, as Agag
was one of the titles of the Amalekite kings. He or his parents were
brought to Persia as captives taken in war. He was hanged on the gallows
which he had erected for Mordecai the Jew (Esther 7:10). (See ESTHER.) - HAMATH fortress, the capital of one of the kingdoms of Upper Syria of
the same name, on the Orontes, in the valley of Lebanon, at the northern
boundary of Palestine (Numbers 13:21; 34:8), at the foot of Hermon
(Joshua 13:5) towards Damascus (Zechariah 9:2; Jeremiah 49:23). It is
called “Hamath the great” in Amos 6:2, and “Hamath-zobah” in 2
Chronicles 8:3.
Hamath, now Hamah, had an Aramaean population, but Hittite
monuments discovered there show that it must have been at one time