Ham (Gen 10:6-20) – Deep Dive Bible

The Sons of Ham

The Sons of Ham	Location Notes
Cush	The name is well-known to mean Ethiopia, although it might have been located around present-day Sudan.
Mizraim	Again, well-known to mean Egypt.
Phut	All sources agree (although not all are confident) that this is probably Libya, on the African coast to the west of Egypt.
Canaan	This is well-known indeed.

The Sons of Cush

	Note: To save time, from now on I will be using only the Holman Atlas for place names. There is some disagreement, as above; e.g., the ESV says Havilah is at the tip of the Arabian peninsula, not in Africa.
Seba, Havilah	Both far to the southeast in Africa, along the entrance of the Red Sea, around present-day Eritrea.
Sabtah, Raamah	Both around present day Yemen, near the southern corner of Arabia.
Sabtechah	Location unknown
Sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan	Sheba is widely thought to be around Yemen, near the southern corner of Arabia, while Dedan is placed just east of the Gulf of Aqaba—close to the place where the Midianites were thought to dwell. Note that Noah was married to a woman described as a “Cushite,” who was also a Midianite; perhaps she was called “Cushite” simply because the Midianites were among the “sons of Cush.”
Nimrod	He was said to have started four cities, Babel (i.e., Babylon), Erech (i.e., Uruk), Accad (i.e., Akkad), and Calneh, all in “the land of Shinar,” which evidently is in southern Mesopotamia and might have meant either “Sumer” or “Akkad,” and some references say simply “Babylonia,” referring to the entire southern Mesopotamian region and the cultures that grew up around there.
Asshur (“out of that land”)	Asshur is the name of a chief city in the future Assyria; this included Nineveh, Resen, Calah, all in northeastern Mesopotamia, and Rehoboth, the location of which is not known.

The Sons of Mizraim

Ludim	Around present-day Tunisia.
Anamim	Location unknown.
Lehabim	Around present-day coastal Libya.
Naphtuhim	The Nile Delta region.
Pathrusim	Appear to be around the ancient (more northerly location of) Ethiopia; possibly just Upper Egyptian?
Casluhim/ Kasluhites	“Out of whom came Philistim.” Placed in present-day coastal Libya. This offers a different origin to the usual one given of the Philistines; archaeologists believe them to have originated in the Aegean islands.
Caphtorim	From Crete.
	Note: From here I will go much faster, as this is simply taking too long. Note also, among the sons of Ham, Phut/Put is here skipped.

The Sons of Canaan

Sidon, Heth, Jebusites, Amorites, Girgasites, Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, Arvadites, Zemarites, Hamathites

Sidon is of course the famous city. Heth, located north of the land of Canaan, is the source of the Hittites. The rest are all to be found in or very near to the land of Canaan, where they can be specifically located at all. Information about the tribes can be found throughout the following notes.