ARZA.Prefect of the palace at Tirzah, in whose house King Elah was assassinated by Zimri at a carouse (1Ki_16:9).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Steward of King Elah's house in Tirzah. Elah, while drinking himself drunk in his house, was slain by the conspirator Zimri. A very different steward from Obadiah (1Ki_18:3, compare 1Co_4:2).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Ar'za. Prefect, of the palace at Tirzah, to Elah, king of Israel, who was assassinated at a banquet in his house by Zimri. 1Ki_16:9.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
ar?za (ארצא, 'arcā'): A steward of King Elah, in whose house at Tirzah Zimri murdered the king at a drinking debauch. The text is not quite clear, and Arza might have been a servant of Zimri (1Ki_16:9).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Arza
(Heb. Artsa', אִרְצָא, an Aramaean form, the earth; Sept. ᾿Ωρσά v. r. Α᾿ρσᾶ), a steward over the house of Elah, king of Israel, in whose house at Tirzah, Zimri, the captain of the half of the chariots, conspired against Elah, and killed him during a drinking debauch (1Ki_16:9), B.C. 926.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.