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Canopy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A covering over a throne, or over a bed; more generally, a covering over the head. So the sky is called a canopy and a canopy is borne over the head in processions.

2. In architecture and sculpture, a magnificent decoration serving to cover and crown an altar, throne, tribunal, pulpit, chair or the like.

Canopy [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To cover with a canopy

Canopy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A covering fixed over a bed, dais, or the like, or carried on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a mark of honor.

2. An ornamental projection, over a door, window, niche, etc.

3. Also, a rooflike covering, supported on pillars over an altar, a statue, a fountain, etc.

Canopy [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To cover with, or as with, a canopy.

Canopying [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Canopy

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4 KJV and 6 BSB verses contain “Canopy”

2 Samuel 22:12

And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

He made darkness a canopy around Him, a gathering of water and thick clouds.

1 Kings 7:6

And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.

Solomon made his colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a portico in front of it and a canopy with pillars in front of the portico.

2 Kings 16:18

And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king’s entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria.

And on account of the king of Assyria, he removed the Sabbath canopy they had built in the temple and closed the royal entryway outside the house of the LORD.

Psalms 18:11

He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.

Isaiah 4:5

And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.

Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy,

Ezekiel 41:25

And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without.

Cherubim and palm trees like those on the walls were carved on the doors of the outer sanctuary, and there was a wooden canopy outside, on the front of the portico.

Judith 10:21

Now Holofernes rested upon his bed under a canopy, which was woven with purple, and gold, and emeralds, and precious stones.

Judith 13:9

And tumbled his body down from the bed, and pulled down the canopy from the pillars; and anon after she went forth, and gave Holofernes his head to her maid;

Judith 13:15

So she took the head out of the bag, and shewed it, and said unto them, behold the head of Holofernes, the chief captain of the army of Assur, and behold the canopy, wherein he did lie in his drunkenness; and the Lord hath smitten him by the hand of a woman.

Judith 16:19

Judith also dedicated all the stuff of Holofernes, which the people had given her, and gave the canopy, which she had taken out of his bedchamber, for a gift unto the Lord.