שְׁכוּנָה f. (preced.) 1) settlement, colony, group of dwellings. Ab. Zar. 21ᵃ ובלבד שלא יעשנה ש׳ provided that (in selling dwellings to a gentile) he does not make it a (gentile) settlement; ib. אין ש׳ וכ׳ a settlement consists of no less than three men (living in a group). Gitt. 6ᵃ מש׳ לש׳ when the deed of divorce is carried from one group of buildings to another; Y. ib. I, 43ᶜ top. Gen. R. s. 39 וממולדתך זו שְׁכוּנָתְךָ ‘and out of thy moledeth’ (Gen. XII, 1) this means, thy settlement. Gen. R. s. 64, v. נָצִיב; a. e.—Lev. R. s. 2 שכונתי some ed., v. שְׁכִינָה. —2) the neighbor’s privilege of preemption. B. Mets. 68ᵃ; 108ᵇ (expl. משכנתא) דש׳ גביה the right of preemption (accorded to neighbors) is with him (the mortgagee).—[שְׁכוּנָה ch., v. next w.]
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שְׁכוּנָה f. ( preced. ) 1) settlement, colony, group of dwellings . Ab. Zar. 21ᵃ ובלבד שלא יעשנה ש׳ provided that (in selling dwellings to a…
References
- Jastrow, שְׁכוּנָא 1
- Avodah Zarah 21a:12
- Gittin 6a:17
- Bereishit Rabbah 39
- Genesis 12:1
- Bereishit Rabbah 64:3
- Jastrow, נָצִיב 1
- Vayikra Rabbah 2:8
- Jastrow, שְׁכִינָה 1
- Bava Metzia 68a
- Bava Metzia 108b:5
- Jastrow, מַשְׁכַּנְתָּא 1
- Jastrow, שְׁכוּנָה 1