KAREAH

(Ka·reʹah) [baldhead, or, bald one].

A man of Judah whose sons Johanan and Jonathan were chiefs of military forces in Judah. This was at the time Gedaliah was commissioned by the king of Babylon over the Judeans not taken into Babylonian exile following Jerusalem’s destruction in 607 B.C.E.—2 Ki. 25:21-23; Jer. 40:7, 8.