Bible Names

Jotham: meaning of the name

Jotham means “the perfection of the Lord.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Jotham in Hebrew and Greek

יוֹתָם H3147

Yôwthâm (yo-thawm') — Jotham, the name of three Israelites

from H3068 (יְהֹוָה) and H8535 (תָּם); Jehovah (is) perfect;

People named Jotham in the Bible

Jotham in Scripture

“Jotham” appears in 24 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Judges 9:5

    And he went unto his father’s house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.

  • Judges 9:7

    And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.

  • Judges 9:21

    And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.

  • Judges 9:57

    And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.

  • 2 Kings 15:5

    And the Lord smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king’s son was over the house, judging the people of the land.

  • 2 Kings 15:7

    So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

  • 2 Kings 15:30

    And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

  • 2 Kings 15:32

    In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.