The Family of Mizraim: His Father, Ham
Saturday, 11 February 2012 15:13
“Ham: warm, hot, and hence the south; also an Egyptian word meaning "black" … 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.)"188
It is most important to remember that Mizraim [from whom descended Egypt] was a part of a family. His father was Ham, acknowledged by all to be a black man189. His brother was Cush190, also a black person. Mizraim was a part of a black family. He was an immediate relative to both Ham and Cush.
In fact Egypt is called the land of Ham [Ps 105:23; 106:22; Ps78.5]. Historians would have us believe that Ham had two black sons (Cush and Put) and two white sons (Canaan and Mizraim), Of course, this is ridiculous. According to Gesenius, Egyptians called their own land Ham, and Ham corresponds to Egypt which means black.191 This blackness refers not to the soil but to the people. The Egyptians identified themselves as black people and saw themselves as descendants of a black man, Ham. Because of the immense influence of Egypt upon the history and culture of Europe, it became unacceptable to acknowledge Egypt as a black nation.
Ps 105:23
23 Israel also came into Egypt; Thus Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. NAS
“Whence came the name Ham? (Cham, Kam)? Where could Moses have found it? Right in Egypt where Moses was born, grew up, and lived until the Exodus. In fact, we know that the Egyptians called their country Kemit, which means “black” in their language. The interpretation according to which Kemit designates the black soil of Egypt, rather than the black man and by extension, the black race of the country of the Blacks, stems from a gratuitous distortion by minds aware of what an exact interpretation of this word imply. Hence, it is natural to find Kam in Hebrew, meaning heat, black, burned.”192
188 Easton, M.G., “Easton’s Bible Dictionary” article: Ham
189 “Ham: The most ancient name for Egypt was Chem meaning “black” …” The Pentateuch and Haftorahs, Ed. by J.H.Hertz Soncino, 1966 pg. 36
191 If Egypt is the “land of Ham” then it is associated with the name which the Egyptians called themselves KMT=kemit=blacks or the Negroes=Ham. see Gesenius #2526 (below) who claims that kmt=Ham (rw) Regarding the definition of Ham “2526- a name of Egypt; properly its domestic name amongst the Egyptians themselves, …The name of Egypt in the most recent Coptic tongue is written…words which signify blackness and heat, as Plutarch observed, De Iside et Osir vii page 437, [“In the Hieroglyphic language it is written with two letters KM] Egypt is so named likewise in the Rosetta inscription in which this word appears more than ten times…” “Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament” Trans. S.P.Tregelles LL.D. Baker 1979 pg.
190 Regarding the definition of Cush: “3568-…a people descended from Ham Genesis 10.7-8 whose country was surrounded by the river Gihon (Genesis 2.13 comp. Isaiah 18.1 Zephaniah 3.10); inhabited by black men (Jeremiah 13.23); and very rich (Isaiah 42.3; 45:14) very often joined with Egypt (Isaiah 20.3-5; 37.9…2 Kings 19.9; 2 Chronicles 14.11 sq; Psalms 68.32; 87.4; Jeremiah 46.9; Ezekiel 30.4 sq; Dan 11.43; Am 9.7; Job 28.19 ) (emphasis added rw)…” Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon To the Old Testament Trans S.P. Tregelles LL.D. Baker 1979 pg. 389
192 Cheikh Anta Diop, “The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality”, Lawrence Hill Books, 1974 Trans. By Mercer Cook pg. 7
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