Jotham

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Jotham ("God is perfect"; also Yotam Hebrew: יותם) is the name of two people of the Hebrew Bible:

1. The youngest of Gideon's seventy sons. He escaped when the rest were put to death by the order of Abimelech (Judges 9:5). When "the citizens of Shechem and the whole house of Millo" were gathered together "by the plain of the pillar" (i.e., the stone set up by Joshua, 24:26; compare Genesis 35:4) "that was in Shechem, to make Abimelech king," from one of the heights of Mount Gerizim he protested against their doing so in the earliest parable, that of the bramble-king. His words then spoken were prophetic. There came a recoil in the feelings of the people toward Abimelech, and then a terrible revenge, in which many were slain and the city of Shechem was destroyed by Abimelech (Judg. 9:45). Having delivered his warning, Jotham fled to Beer from the vengeance of Abimelech (9:7-21).

2. Jotham of Judah, king of Judah

3. Is also the name of the first son of Shoshana Cohen, The world renowned talmudic scholar, and Yehoshua (Shuki) Ben-naim, the award winning Israeli writer.

Some have been known to spell it as Gotham (citation needed)