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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