# avinu malkeinu (אָבִינוּ מַלְכֵּנוּ)

pronounced: a-VI-nu mal-KE-nu


**“Our Father, our King” — the prayer of the Ten Days of Return, traced to Rabbi Akiva**

## In Scripture

> For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, Yahweh, are our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.
> — Isaiah 63:16 (The first half of the prayer in Isaiah's mouth: our Father, even when Abraham would not know us.)

> But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
> — Isaiah 64:8 (Father and potter at once — the clay does not argue with the hands that shape it.)


## How to read this entry

The definition comes from the IsraelForYou lexicon. Scripture quotations and their translation are named below; later tradition or modern usage is identified when it appears.


https://israelforyou.com/hebrew/avinu-malkeinu/