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Monday, October 27, 2008

The Lord's Prayer

Here's the Lord's Prayer in Greek, together with a more-or-less word for word translation. To hear the prayer read using a modern Greek pronunciation, click on the title of this post. You should be directed to a page on box.net, where you can click on a file named 'Lord's Prayer.wma'. Click on that, then click 'open', and you should be able to hear the reading.

My apologies if this does not work as I hope. I am just now learning to add audio to the blog.

Πάτερ ημών, ο εν τοις Ουρανοίς,
Father of us, who [is] in the Heavens

αγιασθήτω το όνομά Σου,

be holy the name of You

ελθέτω η βασιλεία Σου,

let come the kingdom of You

γενηθήτω το θέλημά Σου,

be accomplished the will of You

ως εν Ουρανώ και επί της γης.

as in Heaven also on the earth.

Τον άρτον ημών τον επιούσιον

The bread ours for the coming day

δος ημίν σήμερον,

give to us today,

και άφες ημίν τα οφειλήματα ημών,

and forgive to us the trespasses ours

ως και ημείς αφίεμεν τοις οφειλέταις ημών.

as even we forgive the debtors ours

Και μη εισενέγκης ημάς εις πειρασμόν,

And do not lead us to temptation

αλλά ρύσαι ημάς από του πονηρού.

but deliver/save us from the evil one.

1 comment:

Lightman said...

Great introduction to Lord's Prayer in NT Greek. Suggest that you add the next translation step up from "word-for-word" translation. Prof. R.J. Van Iten, retired but continuing to relish my background in Classical Greek.