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I understand that many commentators explain that Arza is the name of a person, but I was specifically asking according to the approach of Targum and the Peshitta.

In I Kings 16:9, the Bible mentions that Zimri assassinated Elah, king of Israel, when the latter was drunk at the "House of Arza" (בית ארצא). Both the Targum and the Peshitta there add that Arza was an idol (טעוותא), with the Peshitta writing (טעוותא דבביתא). Does anyone here know which i...

I was looking at an interlinear translation of the Bible with the original Hebrew, the Peshitta, and English (see http://www.peshitta.org/pdf/ot/Numbers.pdf ). In Numbers 21:14 it leaves the word והב untranslated as Waheb. In another website (see http://cal1.cn.huc.edu ) I found that the verse is re...