Owner
Owner
OWNER ().The word is found only once in the Authorized Version (Luk 19:33 The owners said (to the disciples), Why loose ye the colt?). Luke alone indicates that there was any question asked when the disciples prepared to take the colt away. Probably the answer which the disciples were instructed to give (The Lord hath need of him, Luk 19:31; Luk 19:34) was a prearranged sign between the owners and Jesus. Elsewhere in the Gospels the frequency of the occurrence of the word owner is concealed from readers of the English versions by its translation as lord (see art. Lord). Lord () has the sense of owner in the phrases the lord of the vineyard (Mat 20:8; Mat 21:40 || Mar 12:9 || Luk 20:15). In the phrases, the servant is not above his lord (Mat 10:24), the servant showed his lord these things (Luk 14:21), the lord of that servant (Luk 12:46 f.), the relationship is that of master (owner) and slave (). By translating as servant, the fact is concealed from English readers that slavery was an institution in the social life of the Jews. It was not so common among them as among the Greeks and Romans, and the condition of the slave in the Jewish social economy was much happier than in the Gentile world. The terrible punishment mentioned in Luk 12:46 (the lord of that servant will cut him in sunder [], and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers) is probably taken from the punishments which were practised in the Gentile world. It is, however, mentioned as a punishment in Heb 11:37. On the different interpretations of Luk 12:46 see Godet, ad loc., and Meyer on Mat 24:51. See also art. Service.
John Reid.
Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels
Owner
oner. See SHIPS AND BOATS, III., 2.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Owner
“one having power” (kuros) or “authority, a lord, master,” signifies “an owner” in Luk 19:33. See LORD, MASTER, SIR.
“a ship owner” (naus, “a ship,” kleros, “a lot”), “a shipmaster,” occurs in Act 27:11, “(the) owner of the ship.”