Jastrow: הֵינוּמָא

הֵינוּמָא, הֵינוּמָה f. (נוּם, formed like preced.) slumbering couch, esp. (a popular adaptation of ὑμέναιος) henuma, a curtained litter on which a virgin bride was carried in procession (cmp. Sm. Ant. s. v. Lectica, about κλίνη a. φορεῖον). Keth. II, 1 שיצאת בה׳ that she was carried out of her father’s home in a henuma or with loosened hair; Y. ib. I, 25ᵃ top הימונא (corr. acc.). Bab. ib. 16ᵇ עדי ה׳ witnesses testifying to her having been taken out in a h.—Ib. 17ᵇ מאי ה׳ what is henuma? Answ. תנורא דאסא an oven-shaped (frame) draped with myrtles; oth. opin. קלתא דמנמנמא בה וכ׳ (not קריתא דמנמנא, v. Rashbam to B. Bath. 92ᵇ) a curtained couch on which the bride reclines as though slumbering. Y. Keth. II, 26ᵃ bot. תמן נמנומא וכ׳ there (in Babylon) they call it namnuma (a slumbering couch), the Rabbis here call it פוריומא q. v.