Avinu — Our Father
אָבִינוּ
Our Father — Israel's family claim on God, long before the Lord's Prayer.
Avinu Malkeinu — 'our Father, our King' — is one of Judaism's most beloved prayers. Yeshua taught His disciples to open with the same word; the Fatherhood of God is one of the deepest shared inheritances of both faiths.
First occurrence
Isa 63:16 — 'You, YHVH, are Avinu, our Redeemer from of old'
Key passages
Isa 64:8 — 'You are Avinu; we are the clay'
Mal 2:10 — 'Have we not all one Father?'
Deut 32:6 — 'Is He not your Father who bought you?' — the verse of the large heh
In the Greek Scriptures
Πατὴρ ἡμῶν