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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

ar'-za ('artsa'): 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).