HALOHESH (ha-lo'hesh), father of Shallum. The latter was ruler of half of Jerusalem at the time Nehemiah repaired the walls (Neh. iii:12). The Hebrew is identical with HALLOHESH in spelling.
HALT (halt), (Heb. tseh'-lah, Gen. xxxii: 3t, to limp). (Gr. xceX6s, kho-los', Matt. xviii:8, crippled).
FiguratiVe. Halting denotes falling into snares and trouble (Ps. xxxviii :17 ; Jer. xx :to), or con tinuing in doubt which to choose (t Kings xviii: 21). Her tlzat lzalteth; e., Jews weak and unre solved to return to their own land (Mic. iv :6; Zeph. iii:t9).
MIN (ham), (Heb. khawnt, swarthy, hot).
1. The youngest son of Noah (Gen. v :32; comp. ix :24), B. C. after 2613. Having provoked the wrath of his father by an act of indecency towards him, the latter cursed him and his de scendants to be slaves to his brothers and their de scendants (ix:25). To judge, however, from the narrative, Noah directed his curse only against Canaan (the fourth son of Ham) and his race, thus excluding from it the descendants of Ham's three other sons, Cush, Mizratn, and Phut (Gen. x:6). The general opinion is that all the South ern nations derive their origin from Ham (to which the Hebrew root Khawm, not unlike the Greek A/Blower, burnea' faces, lends some force).
Cush is supposed to have been the progenitor of the nations of East and South Asia, more espe cially of South Arabia, and also of Ethiopia; Aftz raim, of the African nations, including the Philis tines and some other tribes which Greek fable and tradition connect with Egypt ; Phut, likewise of some African nations, and Canaan, of the in habitants of Palestine and Phcenicia (see Rawlin: son, Five Grt. Mon. i. chap. iv ; Max Muller, Set. of Lang. p. 269o). On the Arabian traditions con cerning Ham. vid. D'Herbelot (Bibl. Orient. art. 'Ham').
2. A poetical name for the land of Egypt (Ps. lxxviii :5t ; cv :23, 27 ; CVi :22).
3. In Gen. xiv :5 occurs a country or place called Ham, belonging to the Zurini, but its geo graphical situation is unknown. E. /I.
4. The original inhabitants of the valley of Gedor are said to be "of Ham" 0 Chron. iv :40).
This may indicate either a Hamite tribe or an Egyptian settlement.