In the Genesis flood story, Ham is identified as the father of Canaan.
Genesis names Noah’s three sons as Shem, Ham, and Japheth. After the flood, an episode involving Noah’s drunkenness leads to a curse directed at Canaan, who is described as Ham’s son. The passage therefore connects Ham with Canaan in the genealogy that follows the flood narrative.
This detail is sometimes misremembered because the three brothers are usually listed together, while Canaan appears later in the story. Shem, Ham, and Japheth are presented as the ancestors of peoples known to the biblical authors, and later chapters develop their family lines. The text does not identify Ham as the father of every nation associated with him in later interpretation; it specifically names Canaan as his son.
Ham’s name also appears in later Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions, although the biblical genealogical detail about Canaan comes from Genesis. The account should not be confused with the separate figure of Methuselah, Noah’s grandfather in the Genesis genealogy.