Houseowner/ landlord/ master

Figuratively: the owner of the place; a designation for the person responsible for the place.

(“They were making merry, when behold, the men of the city, wicked men, surrounded the house, pounding on the door, and they said to the old man, the master of the house, saying: Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him.” — Judges 19:22 (the episode of the concubine at Gibeah); and likewise: “And she said to the mistress of the house: Give me your garments and the garments of my lord your husband, and I will wash them according to your desire.” — Yosef Ibn Zabbara (12th century), The Laundress; and likewise: “Who knows the city of Lishtina?—I know the city of Lishtin! And there is in it a quorum of householders.” — H.N. Bialik, Who Knows the City of Lishtina; and likewise: “Like a mistress of the house, Tzofiya would observe the ways of her household.” — S.Y. Agnon, In the Prime of Her Life.)

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