Kareah

'''Kareah''' or '''Careah''' (meaning in Hebrew "bald"),<ref name="cb kareah">{{cite book |editor1=T. K. Cheyne|editor2=J. Sutherland Black|date=1901|orig-year=1899 |chapter=Kareah|title=Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political, and Religious History, the Archaeology, Geography, and Natural History of the Bible |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabib02cheyuoft |volume=2, E-K|location=New York |publisher=The Macmillan Company }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{bibleverse||Jeremiah|40:8|KJV}}, {{bibleverse-nb||Jeremiah|40:13|KJV}}, {{bibleverse|Jeremiah|40:15-16|KJV}}</ref>

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