Huppah - Huppah

Marriage (i.) - heder, ‘the nuptial chamber’ (Judges 15:1), in which stood the Huppah, the bridal ‘bed with a canopy’ (Joel 2:16; Gesenius, s. In all the lands of their dispersion the Jews still apply this name, Huppah, to the richly embroidered canopy under which the contracting parties stand during the marriage ceremony

Marriage - the Latin ‘confarreatio’), and the marriage was consummated by the entry into the ‘chamber’ ( Huppah ). 168) finds in this a relic of ‘beena’ marriage (see above, § 1), the Huppah or canopy ( Joel 2:16 ) being originally the wife’s tent ( Genesis 24:67 , Judges 4:17 ); cf