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Ham, son of Noah

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Ham (חם, Standard Hebrew Ḥam, Tiberian Hebrew Ḥām: possibly "Warm; hot" or Egyptian "Black") was a son of Noah and the father of Punt (sometimes Put), Mizraim, Canaan and Cush. David Rohl has identified his nation with the Poeni of Punt.

The primitive attempts at an ethnology, which is reflected in terms like "Hamites" and "sons" of an eponymous "father" in general, characteristic of Hebrew (and Greek) genealogical explanations of ethnicities, are not supported by modern scholarship: see Sons of Noah for further discussion.