When asked by one his disciples (Luke 11) how we should pray, Jesus replied by giving us “The Our Father”. The Our Father is the fundamental prayer of the New Testament and perhaps the most said prayer in history.

But the version most people are aware of would a translation into their own native language, or for many centuries, the Latin “Pater Noster”. But Jesus, being a 1st Century Galilean, spoke Aramaic. So when we gave his disciples the Our Father, he would have prayed it in that language.

Here’s an audio clip of the prayer:

Here’s how the prayer is written in Aramaic pronunciation:

Abwoon d’bashmaya (Our Father, Who art in Heaven)

Netqaddash shmak (hallowed be Thy name)

Teete malkutah (Thy Kingdom come)

Nehvwey tzevyannach (Thy will be done)

aykanna d’bashmaya (on earth as it is in Heaven)

aph b’arha Havlan lahma d’sunqananan (Give us this day our daily bread)

yaomana Washbwoqlan (and forgive us our trespasses)

haubvayn aykana daph (as we forgive those who trespass against us)

hnan shbvoqan l’hayyabayn Wela tahlan le’ynesyuna (and lead us not into temptation)

Ela patzan min bisha (but deliver us from evil.)

Metul dilakhe (For Thine is the Kingdom)

malkuta wahayla (and the Power)

wateshbuhta (and the Glory)

l’ahlam almin (For Ever and Ever)

Amen (Amen)

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