The prayer Yeshua taught, in the Aramaic this project renders from — Matthew 6:9–13, line by line. Hebrew script above, the sound beneath it, the English it carries. Turn the layers off as you learn: with both hidden, only the Aramaic remains, and the prayer is yours.
Capitals mark the stressed syllable · kh as in Bach · ts as in hats
6:9
אבון דבשמיא
ʾabun d-bašmayyā
ah-BOON · d-vash-MAY-ya
Our Father of heaven,
6:9
יתקדש שמך
yetqadaš šmāk
yet-qa-DASH · shMAHKH
your name be honored.
6:10
תאתא מלכותך
tiʾte malkutāk
tee-EH-teh · mal-koo-TAHK
May your reign come.
6:10
יהוא צבינך
yehwe ṣebyānāk
yeh-WEH · tsev-ya-NAHK
Let your will unfold
6:10
איכנא דבשמיא אף בארעא
ʾaykanā d-bašmayyā ʾap b-arʿā
eye-ka-NAH · d-vash-MAY-ya · AHF · b-ar-AH
in heaven as well as on earth.
6:11
הב לן לחמא דסונקנן יומנא
hab lan laḥmā d-sunqānan yawmānā
HAHV lan · lakh-MAH · d-soon-qa-NAHN · yaw-MAH-nah
No first-century Galilean text of this prayer survives. What you are reading is the Peshitta text of Matthew 6:9–13 — the same spine the whole project renders from — adjusted toward Yeshua’s Western dialect only where the adjustment is defensible: the two verbs yetqadaš and yehwe carry the Galilean y- prefix where Syriac writes n-, and the nouns for heaven, reign, earth, and bread stand in this corpus with Palestinian attestation. Everything else is honestly Syriac-carried, and the pronunciation is a teachable reading convention — not a claim to recover the exact sounds of his voice.
The later doxology (“for yours is the reign…”) is not in the earliest Greek text, and is not included.
No trustworthy recording of a Galilean reconstruction exists. The closest honest listening is the living Syriac church tradition singing the same Peshitta text this page stands on — Eastern in dialect, and labeled so.
A scholar’s reconstruction of the prayer’s earliest, shorter form (text, with translation notes) — a different method from this page, worth reading beside it.