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
abun d-bashmayya
ah-BOON · d-vash-MAY-ya
Our Father of heaven,
6:9
יתקדש שמך
yetqadash shmakh
yet-qa-DASH · shMAHKH
your name be honored.
6:10
תאתא מלכותך
tite malkutakh
tee-EH-teh · mal-koo-TAHK
May your reign come.
6:10
יהוא צבינך
yehwe tsebyanakh
yeh-WEH · tsev-ya-NAHK
Let your will unfold
6:10
איכנא דבשמיא אף בארעא
aykana d-bashmayya ap b-ara
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 lakhma d-sunqanan yawmana
HAHV lan · lakh-MAH · d-soon-qa-NAHN · yaw-MAH-nah
For yours is the reign, and the power, and the majesty, eternally.
What this is, honestly
Matthew 6:9-13 in the Peshitta’s Aramaic, in plain letters. The verbs yetqadash and yehwe carry the Galilean y- prefix.
The closing line (for yours is the reign, and the power, and the majesty) is not in the earliest Greek text, so the core rendering leaves it out of Matthew 6:13. The Peshitta carries it, and it is shown here as the prayer is prayed. The spine text ends at ʿālmin; many manuscripts add amin.
No trustworthy recording of a Galilean reconstruction exists. The nearest thing is the living Syriac church tradition singing the same Peshitta text this page stands on, Eastern in dialect rather than Western.
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.