Someone descended from Chereth(?), first mentioned at 1Sa.30.14

§ Cherethites = "executioners"

1) a group of foreign mercenary soldiers serving as a bodyguard for king David; also executioners

2) either Cretans or proto-Philistines (in general)

A group, first mentioned at 2Sa.8.18; also called Carite at 2Ki.11.4,19;

Also named: ka.ri (כָּרִי "Carite" H3746)

§ Cherethites = "executioners"

1) a group of foreign mercenary soldiers serving as a bodyguard for king David; also executioners

2) either Cretans or proto-Philistines (in general)

כְּרֵתִי adj.gent Kerethites Cretans . always c. art. or pl. as subst. a name for Philistines or a part of them (perhaps =)