Genesis 10:1
And these are births of the builders of Rest, Name, Warm,356 and Opened. And builders are being born to-themselves of a back-one of the Flow.
| 356 | Who is Ham? Some insight to the allegorical picture behind Ham is seen in his verb stem.
Samson in Judges 15:16 makes a riddle of the words chamor, and aleph as pointed out by Charles Ellicott in his commentary: a sort of punning couplet, which turns entirely on the identity of sound between chamor, a heap, and chamor, an ass, and the play of meaning between aleph, a thousand, and aleph, an ox. In the Hebrew the couplet runs:— “Bi-lechi ha-chamor chamor chamorathaim. Bi-lechi ha-chamor hikeyti eleph ish.” Literally, with some attempt, however clumsy, to keep up the play of words, “With jaw of the Ass, a (m)ass two (m)asses, With jaw of the Ass I smote an ox-load of men.” |