November 4, 2009

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Well, folks, it's Wednesday. Ready?

'o kurios meta 'umon!

Last week we learned: pater 'emon 'o en tois ouranois
(Note, in case you haven't figured it out: the ' in front of some of the words that start with vowels puts an "h" sound in front of the word. It actually ought to be rounded, and over the vowel, and shaped like a backwards comma.)

Now we go on: 'agiastheto to onoma sou
'agiastheto (ha-gee-ahs-theh-toe (soft "g")) is a verb in the present passive 3rd person singular (at least, I think it is because the lexical form is "'agiazo" and Greek does letter magic sometimes) The verb means "sanctify" or "hallow" and is the verb form of 'agias which means "holy"
to (toe) means "the"
onoma (on-oh-mah) means "name"
sou (sue) is the genative (possession) form of the word that means "you"

So all together now we have: "be sanctified the name of you"
Moving stuff around because in English we have this silly word order thing: "your name is being sanctified" (I have a hard time translating imperatives so that the meaning comes across)

See you next week!

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