The Lord's Prayer in Koine Greek / ΠΑΤΕΡ ΗΜΩΝ

The Lord's Prayer in Koine Greek using a modern/restored first-century pronunciation. It's taken from Matthew 6:9-13. Hope you enjoy it.

Greek Text
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Πάτερ ἡμῶν ὁ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς·
ἁγιασθήτω τὸ ὄνομά σου·
ἐλθέτω ἡ βασιλεία σου·
γενηθήτω τὸ θέλημά σου,·
ὡς ἐν οὐρανῷ καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς·
τὸν ἄρτον ἡμῶν τὸν ἐπιούσιον δὸς ἡμῖν σήμερον·
καὶ ἄφες ἡμῖν τὰ ὀφειλήματα ἡμῶν,
ὡς καὶ ἡμεῖς ἀφίεμεν τοῖς ὀφειλέταις ἡμῶν·
καὶ μὴ εἰσενέγκῃς ἡμᾶς εἰς πειρασμόν,
ἀλλὰ ῥῦσαι ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τοῦ πονηροῦ.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• koine
• greek
• language
• ancient
• classical
• erasmian
• bible
• testament
• matthew
• jesus
• christian
• church
• god
• faith

[speedstick77]

You sound great, Buddy.

[griffbp]

@speedstick77 Thank you very much.

[Pavelic96]

In my school we learn Koine Greek but we pronunciate "theta" as greek letters "TX" not like english "th". Also we pronunciate "eta" like english "A" not "E".

Do we learn wrong or?

[griffbp]

@Pavelic96 I wouldn't worry about it. There's sticklers who get fully beefed up about whether somethings right or not. Just remember that the language spans 1000s of years, had several pronounciations and regional accents made the language entirely different. Read a few things about pronouncitian and use what's comfortable. :D

[DavidEberhardt]

Thank you! I wrote this prayer in my notebook in high school, but never completely learned it. I am 63 now and retired. I am determined to learn it completely this year. Thank you again, best wishes and blessings.

[griffbp]

@DavidEberhardt You are very welcome.

[kori4580]

@griffbp although what you say is possible, it doesn't rule out that Yu was pronounced as "ee". You dont need to distinguish to words with different sounds. For example, in English you have "there" and "their, and "they're" yet we can differentiate the meaning by context. The academic pronunciation of Attic Greek is theoretical, but we do know the Lord's Prayer was pronounced with the same phonetics of Modern Greek since the dialect is Koine Greek.

[egwpisteuw]

Excellent work--you have achieved a very nice accent and rhythm. Whose pronunciation system are you using?

[MathewsBowHunter2000]

Thank you, I like it so much that I've down loaded it to my mp3 player. just wish you would have added the last verse.

[griffbp]

@faraget Feel free to make one yourself without these 'few' mistakes :D

[griffbp]

@kori4580 Thank you for the feedback. I realise the yu/ee thing, but I figured that the Greek speakers of the First Centry would probably have pronounced it differently.Otherwise HMIN and YMIN would never have been distinguishable, and there's lots of Jesus' speeches where he uses both without a context and it would have been hard to distinguish these words without a pronounciation difference.

[kori4580]

@Pavelic96 academically it is thought that in the older dialect Attic Greek they use to pronounce theta by pronouncing the "T" and "H" separately but eventually evolved into "TH" in classical times. However, certainly the Koine dialect theta was pronounced as "TH" as in THink. As for ETA, in Attic Greek they think it was pronounced as "A" as in Ate or EIght but in Koine and certainly when the New Testament was written it evolved into "EE" as in mEEt.