'Owners' in the Bible

As they were untying the young donkey, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the donkey?”

Once, as we were on our way to prayer, a slave girl met us who had a spirit of prediction. She made a large profit for her owners by fortune-telling.

When her owners saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.