Genesis 10:6
New International Version
The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan.

New Living Translation
The descendants of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

English Standard Version
The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

Berean Standard Bible
The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

King James Bible
And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

New King James Version
The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

New American Standard Bible
The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

NASB 1995
The sons of Ham were Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.

NASB 1977
And the sons of Ham were Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.

Legacy Standard Bible
The sons of Ham were Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.

Amplified Bible
the sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim [from whom descended the Egyptians], Put, and Canaan;

Christian Standard Bible
Ham’s sons: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Ham’s sons: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

American Standard Version
And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the children of Kham: Cush and Metsraym and Phut and Canaan.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the sons of Cham, Chus, and Mesrain, Phud, and Chanaan.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the sons of Cham: Chus, and Mesram, and Phuth, and Chanaan.

English Revised Version
And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Ham's descendants were Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

Good News Translation
The sons of Ham--Cush, Egypt, Libya, and Canaan--were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names.

International Standard Version
Ham's descendants included Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.

Literal Standard Version
And sons of Ham [are] Cush, and Mitzraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

Majority Standard Bible
The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

New American Bible
The descendants of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put and Canaan.

NET Bible
The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

New Revised Standard Version
The descendants of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

New Heart English Bible
The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

World English Bible
The sons of Ham were: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

Young's Literal Translation
And sons of Ham are Cush, and Mitzraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

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Context
The Hamites
6The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. 7The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.…

Cross References
Genesis 9:18
The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.

Genesis 10:5
From these, the maritime peoples separated into their territories, according to their languages, by clans within their nations.

1 Chronicles 1:8
The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

Ezekiel 38:5
Persia, Cush, and Put will accompany them, all with shields and helmets,


Treasury of Scripture

And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

A.

Genesis 9:22
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

1 Chronicles 1:8-16
The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan…

1 Chronicles 4:40
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.

Ham.

Cush.

Isaiah 11:11
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

Phut.

Jeremiah 46:9
Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.

Ezekiel 27:10
They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.

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Genesis 10
1. The generations of Noah.
2. Japheth.
6. Ham.
8. Nimrod becomes the first monarch; the descendants of Canaan.
21. The sons of Shem.














(6) Ham.--Many derive this word from a Hebrew root, and explain it as signifying hot, sunburnt, and so swarthy. Japheth they connect with a word signifying to be fair; and so Ham is the progenitor of dark races, Japheth of those of a fair complexion, while the olive- coloured spring from Shem. More probably it is Chemi, the old name of Egypt, "the land of Ham" (Psalm 78:51), called by Plutarch Chemia, and was taken from the black colour of the soil.

The Hamites are grouped in four principal divisions:--

1. Cush. Aethiopia, but not that of Africa, but of Asia. The home of the Cushites was on the Tigris and Euphrates, where Nimrod raised them to great power. Thence they spread into the southern peninsula of Arabia, and crossing the Red Sea at a later date, colonised Nubia and Abyssinia. In the Bible Cush is watered by the Gihon (Genesis 2:13); and Zipporah, the wife of Moses, and daughter of a priest of Midian, is in Numbers 12:1 called a Cushite. Their high rank in old time is marked by the place held by them in the Iliad of Homer.

2. Mizraim. Egypt. In form the word is a dual, and may point to the division of the country into Upper and Lower Egypt. If we choose to interpret a Hamite word by a Hebrew root, it may signify the narrowed land, but it is safer to leave these words till increased knowledge shall enable us to decide with some security upon their meaning. For the ancient name of Mizraim see Genesis 10:6, and for its extent see Genesis 10:14. From the study of the skulls and bodies of a large number of mummies Brugsch-Bey in his recent history has come to the conclusion that the ancient Egyptians did not belong to any African race, but to the great Caucasian family, "but not of the Pelasgic or Semitic branches, but of a third, Cushite." He adds that the cradle of the Egyptian nation must be sought in Central Asia. . . .

Verse 6. - And the sons of Ham. These, who occupy the second place, that the list might conclude with the Shemites as the line of promise, number thirty, of whom only four were immediate descendants. Their territory generally embraced the southern portions of the globe. Hence the name Ham has been connected with חָמַס, to be warm, though Kalisch declares it to be not of Hebrew, but Egyptian origin, appearing in the Chme of the Rosetta Stone. The most usual ancient name of the country was Kern, the black land. Scripture speaks of Egypt as the land of Ham (Psalm 78:51; Psalm 105:23; Psalm 106:22) Cush. Ethiopia, including Arabia "quae mater est," and Abyssinia "quae colonia" (Michaelis, Rosenmüller). The original settlement of Cush, however, is believed to have been on the Upper Nile, whence he afterwards spread to Arabia, Babylonia, India (Knobel, Kalisch, Lange, Rawlinson). Murphy thinks he may have started from the Caucasus, the Caspian, and. the Cossaei of Khusistan, and. migrated south (to Egypt) and east (to India). Josephus mentions that in his day Ethiopia was called Cush; the Syriac translates ἀνὴρ Ἀιθίοψ (Acts 8:27) by Cuschaeos; the ancient Egyptian name of Ethiopia was Keesh, Kish, or Kush ('Records of the Past, 4:7). The Cushites are described as of a black color (Jeremiah 13:23) and of great stature (Isaiah 45:14). And Mizraim. A dual form probably designed to represent the two Egypts, upper and lower (Gesenius, Keil, Kalisch), though it has been discovered in ancient Egyptian as the name of a Hittite chief (circa B.C. 1300, contemporary with Rameses II.), written in hieroglyphics M'azrima, Ma being the sign for the dual. The old Egyptian name is Kemi, Chemi, with obvious reference to Ham; the name Egypt being probably derived from Kaphtah, the land of Ptah. The singular form Mazor is found in later books (2 Kings 19:24; Isaiah 19:6; 35:25), and usually denotes Lower Egypt. And Phut. Phet (Old Egyptian), Phaiat (Coptic); the Libyans in the north of Africa (Josephus, LXX., Gesenins, Bochart). Kalisch suggests Buto or Butos, the capital of the delta of the Nile. And Canaan. Hebrew, Kenaan (vide on Genesis 9:25). The extent of the territory occupied by the fourth son of Ham is defined in vers. 15-19.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The sons
וּבְנֵ֖י (ū·ḇə·nê)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

of Ham:
חָ֑ם (ḥām)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 2526: Ham -- a son of Noah, also his descendants, also a name for Egyptians

Cush,
כּ֥וּשׁ (kūš)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 3568: A son of Ham, also his descendants, also a land in the southern Nile Valley

Mizraim,
וּמִצְרַ֖יִם (ū·miṣ·ra·yim)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4714: Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa

Put,
וּפ֥וּט (ū·p̄ūṭ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 6316: Put -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their land

and Canaan.
וּכְנָֽעַן׃ (ū·ḵə·nā·‘an)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3667: Canaan -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their land West of the Jordan


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