'Own' in the Bible

Each of the priests made repairs above the Horse Gate, each opposite his own house.

Listen, our God, for we are despised. Make their insults return on their own heads and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity.

When our enemies heard that we knew their scheme and that God had frustrated it, every one of us returned to his own work on the wall.

and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish countrymen who were sold to foreigners, but now you sell your own countrymen, and we have to buy them back.” They remained silent and could not say a word.

Then I replied to him, “There is nothing to these rumors you are spreading; you are inventing them in your own mind.”

These are the people of the province who went up among the captive exiles deported by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Each of them returned to Jerusalem and Judah, to his own town.

These are the heads of the province who stayed in Jerusalem (but in the villages of Judah each lived on his own property in their towns—the Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants, and descendants of Solomon’s servants—

The rest of Israel, the priests, and the Levites were in all the villages of Judah, each on his own inherited property.

I also found out that because the portions for the Levites had not been given, each of the Levites and the singers performing the service had gone back to his own field.