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HAMITES, HAMITIC

1. The descendants of Ham, the youngest of Noah’s three sons. Ham brought a curse upon his own son Canaan when he “looked upon his father’s nakedness” (Gen. 9:18-27). The Bible also connects Hamites with Cushites, descended from one of Ham’s sons (Gen. 10:6). Cushites have at times been called Hamitic Ethiopians. Accordingly, though difficult to confirm ethnically and geographically, many Ethiopians trace their descent through Ham.

2. Hamito-Semitic, an earlier designation of the Berber (Algeria and Morocco), Chadic (northern Nigeria, Chad, and neighboring countries; primarily Hausa), Cushitic-Omotic (Ethiopia and Somalia; primarily Oromo and Somali), and ancient Egyptian languages (later Coptic) and related cultures. Afro-asiatic has become the more common designation for this language group. The closeness of the relationship between Afro-asiatic, Egyptian, and Semitic remains unclear.

Bibliography. M. Bernal, Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (London, 1987); E. Ullendorff, Ethiopia and the Bible (Oxford, 1968).

Mark A. Christian

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HAMITES, HAMITIC

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)