Curse of Ham Curse of Ham The Curse of Ham is the curse upon Canaan, Ham's son, that was imposed by the biblical patriarch Noah. The curse occurs in the Book of Genesis and concerns Noah's drunkenness and the accompanying shameful act perpetrated by his son Ham, the father of Canaan (). The controversies raised by this story regarding the nature of Ham's transgression, and the question of why Noah cursed Canaan when Ham had sinned, have been debated for over 2,000 years. The story's original purpose may have been to justify the subjection of the Canaanite people to the Israelites, but in
Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible before its second edition which appeared in 1893. Later editions include a supplement entitled "The Canon of Scripture" by R. K. Harrison and Everett F. Harrison. Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible is a concordance to the Bible compiled by Robert Young first published in 1879. British editions and American editions are numbered differently. These have the title "Analytical Concordance to the Holy Bible". These have the title "Analytical Concordance to the Bible". The 20th American edition, first published in 1910, corresponds largely to the British 7th edition revised by W. B. Stevenson, but