Brown Driver Briggs

 n pr m
Ham = "hot"
1. 2nd son of Noah, father of Canaan and of various peoples which
were inhabitants of southern lands
2. in late usage, a collective name for Egyptians
n pr loc
3. the place where Chedorlaomer smote the Zuzim, probably in the
territory of Ammonites (Gilead) east of the Jordan