Kareah or Careah (meaning in Hebrew "bald"),[1] according to the Book of Jeremiah, was the father of Johanan and Jonathan, who for a time were loyal to Gedaliah, the Babylonian governor of Jerusalem.[2]

References

  1. ^ T. K. Cheyne; J. Sutherland Black, eds. (1901) [1899]. "Kareah". Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political, and Religious History, the Archaeology, Geography, and Natural History of the Bible. Vol. 2, E–K. New York: The Macmillan Company.
  2. ^ Jeremiah 40:8, 40:13, Jeremiah 40:15–16

Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Easton, Matthew George (1897). "Kareah". Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). T. Nelson and Sons.

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