Cham means “Ham” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2526 — katho (“according to that”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2526 חָם (Cham) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. Cham (khawm) n/l. 1. hot (from the tropical habitat) 2. Cham, a son of Noah It has 15 linked Bible usages across 3 books. Visible English usage signals include ham, noah, sons, and their. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
Cham (khawm) n/l. 1. hot (from the tropical habitat) 2. Cham, a son of Noah 3. (as a patronymic) his descendants or their country [the same as H2525] KJV: Ham. Root(s): H2525
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Ham
Usage: A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.5.32; son of: Noah (H5146); brother of: Shem (H8035) and Japheth (H3315); father of: Canaan (H3667), Cush (H3568), Egypt (H4714) and Put (H6316) § Ham = "hot" 1) 2nd son of Noah, father of Canaan and of various peoples which were inhabitants of southern lands 2) in late usage, a collective name for Egyptians n pr loc
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Cham, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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15 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
First 15 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2526.
And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.
And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2526, grouped by book.
Cham (Strong's H2526) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "Ham". Cham (khawm) n/l. 1. hot (from the tropical habitat) 2. Cham, a son of Noah
This page currently indexes 15 linked usages for Strong's H2526 across 3 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2526 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as ham, noah, sons, and their. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.