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# יוֹתָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3147

**Jotham** — used 24 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Jotham [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3147/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יוֹתָם: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3147/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (י׳ is perfect)— king of Judah, son of Azariah (𝔊 Ἰωαθαμ, Ἰωαθαν, Ἰωναθαν) 2 K 15:5, 7, 30, 32, 36, 38; 16:1 Ch 3:12; 5:17 2 Ch 26:21, 23; 27:1, 6, 7, 9; Is 1:1; 7:1; Ho 1:1; Mi 1:1. youngest son of Jerubbaal (Gideon) Ju 9:5, 7, 21, 57 (𝔊 ut supr.; Codd. Ἰωθαμ, Ἰωαθαμ). a descendant of Caleb 1 Ch 2:47 (𝔊 Ἰωαθαμ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 22 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Jotham (16); of Jotham (7); \[was\] Jotham (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 3:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.3.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.3.12/#tree)

אֲמַצְיָ֧הוּ בְנ֛וֹ עֲזַרְיָ֥ה בְנ֖וֹ יוֹתָ֥ם בְּנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* \[was\].Amaziah son his \[was\].Azariah son his \[was\].Jotham son his

*JPS 1917:* Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son;

[2 Chronicles 27:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.27.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.27.6/#tree)

וַיִּתְחַזֵּ֖ק יוֹתָ֑ם כִּ֚י הֵכִ֣ין דְּרָכָ֔יו לִפְנֵ֖י יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and he.strengthened.himself Jotham (dm) he.had.directed ways his before Yahweh God his

*JPS 1917:* So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3147.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3147/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).