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kar´tan (קרתּן, ḳartān): A city in the territory of Naphtali, given to the Gershonite Levites (). It is called Kiriathaim in . Kartan may be a contraction of this. Cheyne (EB, under the word) suggests that both names may be corruptions from “Chinnereth.†Neither is mentioned in , , in the list of Naphtalite cities, while Chinnereth is.