69 occurrences in 13 translations

'Owner' in the Bible

Abram said, “Lord God, what reward will You give me, since I am [leaving this world] childless, and he who will be the owner and heir of my house is this [servant] Eliezer from Damascus?”

Verse ConceptsAbrahamMoney, Stewardship OfWhat God Gives

if by himself he cometh in, by himself he goeth out; if he is owner of a wife, then his wife hath gone out with him;

Verse ConceptsIsolated PersonsMarriage ControlledUnmarriedBeing Single

“When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod, and the slave dies under his abuse, the owner must be punished.

Verse ConceptsFloggingBeating PeopleManslaughterJudicial PunishmentStriking People With A StaffPropertyslaveryAbuseNervousness

However, if the slave can stand up after a day or two, the owner should not be punished because he is his owner’s property.

Verse ConceptsSeveral DaysAlternatives To MoneyUnpunishedPropertyslavery

If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfStriking To DeathAnimals KillingForbidden FoodInstructions About StoningRules About Killing AnimalsUnpunished

But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.

Verse ConceptsHabitsPunishment, Legal Aspects OfStriking To DeathAnimals KillingDeath Penalty For ViolenceInstructions About StoningRules About Killing AnimalsUnpremeditated

If the ox gores a son or a daughter, the owner will be dealt with according to this rule.

Verse ConceptsRegulations For Men And Women

"If the ox gores a male or female servant, the owner is to give 30 shekels of silver to the servant's master, and the ox is to be stoned.

Verse ConceptsCompensationSilverSlavery, In OtSlavesInstructions About StoningRules About Killing AnimalsPrice Set On Individuals

The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.

Verse ConceptsCorpses Of AnimalsIndeterminate Sums Of Money

Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.

Verse ConceptsEquality Of PunishmentStriking To DeathCorpses Of AnimalsUnpremeditated

If a thief is taken in the act of forcing his way into a house, and his death is caused by a blow, the owner of the house is not responsible for his blood.

Verse ConceptsBeing Found OutGuiltFamily Deaththievesprocess

If the thief is not caught, the owner of the house must present himself to the judges to determine whether or not he has taken his neighbor’s property.

Verse ConceptsFinding Peoplethieves

Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.

Verse ConceptsOaths, HumanSwearing Oaths

And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.

And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good.

Verse ConceptsBeing In DebtLendingRepaying DebtDuties To NeighboursBorrowingLosing Someone

But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.

Verse ConceptsHiringLossMoney, Uses OfPersons With Things

or anything else about which he swore falsely. He must make full restitution for it and add a fifth of its value to it. He is to pay it to its owner on the day he acknowledges his guilt.

Verse ConceptsRestitutionFractions, One Fifth

the owner of the house is to come and tell the priest: Something like mildew contamination has appeared in my house.

Verse ConceptsGiving Informationmold

Wherever there is property in land, the owner is to have the right of getting it back.

Verse Conceptsredeemed

If he has not prospered enough to refund a balance to him, then what he sold will belong to the one who bought it until the jubilee year, but it must revert in the jubilee and the original owner may return to his property.

Verse ConceptsYearsReversion Of Things

Then he [or his redeemer] shall calculate with his purchaser from the year when he sold himself to the purchaser to the Year of Jubilee, and the [original] price of his sale shall be adjusted according to the number of years. The time he was with his owner shall be considered as that of a hired man.

Verse ConceptsHiringWagesAccording To Time

He will stay with him like a man hired year by year. A foreign owner is not to rule over him harshly in your sight.

And if the owner has a desire to get back his house, let him give a fifth more than your value, and it will be his.

In the Year of Jubilee the field will return to the one he bought it from, the original owner.

Verse ConceptsYear Of JubileeReversion Of Things

If it is among the unclean animals, the owner may redeem it in accordance with your valuation, and add one-fifth to it; or if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold in accordance with your valuation.

Verse ConceptsUnclean SpiritsUnclean Animals

The owner must not examine the animals to distinguish between good and bad, and he must not exchange it. If, however, he does exchange it, both the original animal and its substitute will be holy. It must not be redeemed.'"

Verse ConceptsGood Or BadNot Redeemed

and this is the matter of the release: Every owner of a loan is to release his hand which he doth lift up against his neighbour, he doth not exact of his neighbour and of his brother, but hath proclaimed a release to Jehovah;

Verse ConceptsDebtlent

If the owner does not live near you or you do not know who the owner is, then you must corral the animal at your house and let it stay with you until the owner looks for it; then you must return it to him.

Verse ConceptsNot Knowing PeopleFar From Here

While they were enjoying themselves, all of a sudden, perverted men of the city surrounded the house and beat on the door. They said to the old man who was the owner of the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him!”

Verse ConceptsVulgarityCrude LanguageDecadenceHomosexualityKnockingSexual Union IntendedAbuse

The owner of the house went out and said to them, “No, don’t do this evil, my brothers. After all, this man has come into my house. Don’t do this horrible thing.

Verse ConceptsLordship, Human And Divine

Now, in earlier times this was the way in Israel when property was taken over by a near relation, or when there was a change of owner. To make the exchange certain one man took off his shoe and gave it to the other; and this was a witness in Israel.

Verse ConceptsCustomGesturesMarketsTraditionsApprovalContracts

And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.

Verse ConceptsBuildingCoinage

A bribe seems like a magic stone to its owner;wherever he turns, he succeeds.

Verse ConceptsPrecious StonesEffect Of BribesBriberymagic

When good things increase, the ones who consume them multiply; what, then, is the profit to the owner, except to gaze at them with his eyes?

Verse ConceptsGrowth In WealthFinancesFamily ProblemsWealth And ProsperitySaving Money

There is a sickening tragedy I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

Verse ConceptsBad SituationsMisersHoardingStoring Treasure On EarthUnder The SunTragedy

And it will be the same for the people as for the priest; for the servant as for his master; and for the woman-servant as for her owner; the same for the one offering goods for a price as for him who takes them; the same for him who gives money at interest and for him who takes it; the same for him who lets others have the use of his property as for those who make use of it.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Institution In Ot TimesServants Of PeopleLike People In CharacterLending And Borrowingservanthoodmistresspriests

But he will say, I am no prophet, but a worker on the land; for I have been an owner of land from the time when I was young.

Verse ConceptsPloughmenWork From YouthProphets Who Were Not SentAgricultureFarming

therefore entreat the Owner of the Harvest to send out reapers into His fields."

Verse ConceptsReapersGod Sending ProphetsWorkers

So the slaves of the owner came and said to him, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Then where did the weeds come from?'

Verse ConceptsFigurative FieldsGood PeopleWhy Does This Happen?Sowing Seeds

Then he said to them, "Therefore every expert in the law who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his treasure what is new and old."

Verse ConceptsHousesKeysTeachers Of The LawChristian TraditionsPeople Of The KingdomtrainingNew

“For the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of an estate who went out in the morning at dawn to hire workmen for his vineyard.

Verse ConceptsMorningMetaphorical VineyardsLikeningIn The MorningLikening ThingsParables Of The KingdomWorkers

When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his foreman, ‘Call the workers and give them their pay, starting with the last and ending with the first.’

Verse ConceptsBeginningMastersOverseersMetaphorical VineyardsBeginning And EndIn TurnLast OnesOthers Summoning

When they received it, they protested and grumbled at the owner of the estate,

Verse ConceptsGrumbling At People

But when the workmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property; come, let us put him to death and take his heritage.

Verse ConceptsInheritance, MaterialAttempts To Kill Christ

Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?”

Verse ConceptsLordship, Human And DivineMetaphorical VineyardsWhat Do They Do?Farming

But be sure of this: if the owner of the house had known when during the night the thief would be coming, he would have stayed awake and not allowed his house to be broken into.

Verse ConceptsMan Keeping WatchParables Of ChristWithheld KnowledgeKnowingThe Time UnknownThe Lord As A Thiefthieves

But those workmen said among themselves, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property; come, let us put him to death, and the heritage will be ours.

Verse ConceptsInheritance, MaterialPersecution, Nature OfSelfishnessChrist Would Be KilledTaking Possession

Stay alert, then, because you do not know when the owner of the house will return -- whether during evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or at dawn --

Verse ConceptsHourLast ThingsNightCrowsSleep, Warnings AgainstMidnightDaybreakIgnorance Of Christ’s ReturnAt DaybreakThe Time UnknownAttitudes While Waiting For Second Coming

Wherever he enters, tell the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is the guest room for Me to eat the Passover with My disciples?”’

Verse ConceptsGuestsOther References To The DisciplesPrivate RoomsGuest Rooms

And He addressed them thus: "The harvest is abundant, but the reapers are few: therefore entreat the Owner of the harvest to send out more reapers into His fields. And now go.

Verse ConceptsBinding cornHarvestMissionaries, Task OfOpportunities, And SalvationMissionary WorkFruitful LabourReapingReapersFew In The KingdomWorkers

And the day after he took two pennies and gave them to the owner of the house and said, Take care of him; and if this money is not enough, when I come again I will give you whatever more is needed.

Verse ConceptsDenariusSecurityAlmsgivingAltruismCharityPaying For Goods

But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

Verse ConceptsWhen?The Lord As A Thiefthieves

“Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What should I do? I will send my beloved son. Perhaps they will respect him.’

Verse ConceptsJesus Christ, Son Of GodLove Between Father And SonRespect For Peoplereverence

But when the workmen saw him, they said to one another, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property: let us put him to death and the heritage will be ours.

Verse ConceptsInheritance, MaterialChrist Would Be Killed

So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.“Therefore, what will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

Verse ConceptsLordship, Human And DivineDriving Out ChristWhat Do They Do?Christ Was Killed

Tell the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher asks you, “Where is the guest room where I can eat the Passover with My disciples?”’

Verse ConceptsGuestsOther References To The DisciplesWhere Are Things?Private RoomsGuest Rooms

He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.

Verse ConceptsSatan, Compared With AnimalsUnfaithful MinistersScattered Like SheepMen Similar To AnimalsWolvesPeople Abandoning People

And he came to us, and took the band of Paul's clothing, and putting it round his feet and hands, said, The Holy Spirit says these words, So will the Jews do to the man who is the owner of this band, and they will give him up into the hands of the Gentiles.

Verse ConceptsBeltsWarning IndividualsSuffering From ForeignersSpeaking By The SpiritTying Up

Nevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner of the ship, more than those things which were spoken by Paul.

Verse ConceptsAdvice, Rejecting Good Adviceadvisers

has in these last days spoken [with finality] to us in [the person of One who is by His character and nature] His Son [namely Jesus], whom He appointed heir and lawful owner of all things, through whom also He created the universe [that is, the universe as a space-time-matter continuum].

Verse ConceptsDays, Description OfDays, LastThe Final Days Of TimeCompletionBirthrightsChrist's Role In CreationGod, Suffering OfGod, The CreatorHeirsInheritance, SpiritualSonsNames And Titles For ChristChrist, Names ForGod SpeakingAges Of TimeJesus Role In SalvationThe keyword of HebrewsEnd Of Days

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
אדן אדון 
'adown 
Usage: 335

בּעל 
Ba`al 
Usage: 85

קנה 
Qanah 
Usage: 84

ναύκληρος 
Naukleros 
owner of a ship
Usage: 1

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