kan'-o-pi (chuppah, from a root meaning "to enclose" or "cover"):Isa 4:5the King James Version has "defence," the English Revised Version "canopy," the American Standard Revised Version "covering," the last being best, though "canopy" has much in its favor. InPs 19:5(Hebrew 19:6) chuppah is used of the bridegroom's chamber and inJoe 2:16of the bride's. Among the Hebrews the chuppah was originally the chamber in which the bride awaited the groom for the marital union. In Judith 10:21; 13:9,15; 16:19 the word canopy occurs as the English equivalent of the Greek konopeion, which was primarily a mosquito-net and then a canopy over a bed, whether for useful or for decorative purposes.
John Richard Sampey