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.]