'Neighbors' in the Bible
Then her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her His great mercy, and they rejoiced with her.
He also said to the one who had invited Him, “When you give a lunch or a dinner, don’t invite your friends, your brothers, your relatives, or your rich neighbors, because they might invite you back, and you would be repaid.
and coming home, he calls his friends and neighbors together, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my lost sheep!’
When she finds it, she calls her women friends and neighbors together, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found the silver coin I lost!’
His neighbors and those who formerly had seen him as a beggar said, “Isn’t this the man who sat begging?”