NEIGHBOR

At the time of our Savior, the Pharisees had restrained the meaning of the word "neighbor" to those of their own nation, or to their own friends; holding, that to hate their enemy was not forbidden by the law, Mt 5:43. But our Savior informed them that the whole world was neighbors; that they ought not to do to another what they would not have done to themselves; and that this charity extended even to enemies. See the beautiful parable of the Good Samaritan, the real neighbor to the distressed, Lu 10:29.

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NEIGHBOR. → General scriptures concerning Ex 20:16; 23:4,5; Le 6:2-5; 19:13,16-18; De 22:1-4; Ps 15:1-3; Pr 3:28,29; Isa 58:6-14; Jer 22:13; Zec 8:16,17; Mt 7:12; 19:19; 22:39; 25:34-46; Mr 12:31; Lu 10:25-37; Ro 13:9,10; 15:2; Ga 5:14; 6:10; Heb 13:3; Jas 2:8,9 → See DUTY → See MAN

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neighbor. Neighbor, [nabor] n. one who lives near another

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Neigh″bor (nā″bẽr), n. [[OE. neighebour, AS. neáhgebūr; neáh nigh + gebūr a dweller, farmer; akin to D. nabuur, G. nachbar, OHG. nāhgibūr. See Nigh, and Boor.]] [Spelt also neighbour.] 1. 1. A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off. Chaucer.
Masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbors. Shak. 2. 2. One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
Buckingham No more shall be the neighbor to my counsel. Shak. 3. 3. One entitled to, or exhibiting, neighborly kindness; hence, one of the human race; a fellow being.
Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves? Luke x. 36. The gospel allows no such term as “stranger;” makes every man my neighbor. South.