'Owners' in the Bible

As they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, “Why are you untying the colt?”

There was not a needy person among them, because those who were owners of land or houses were selling them, and bringing the proceeds of the sales

It happened that as we were on our way to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave-girl who had a spirit of divination [that is, a demonic spirit claiming to foretell the future and discover hidden knowledge], and she brought her owners a good profit by fortune-telling.

But when her owners saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities in the market place [where trials were held],