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mam·mon    Audio Help   [mam-uhn] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.New Testament. riches or material wealth. Matt. 6:24; Luke 16:9,11,13.
2.(often initial capital letter) a personification of riches as an evil spirit or deity.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME < LL < Gk mam(m)ōnâs < Aram māmōnā riches]

mam·mon·ish, adjective

1. possessions, money, gold.
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Mam·mon    Audio Help   (mām'ən)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. Bible Riches, avarice, and worldly gain personified as a false god in the New Testament.
  2. often mammon Material wealth regarded as having an evil influence.


[Middle English, from Late Latin mammon, from Greek mamōnās, from Aramaic māmonā, riches, probably from Mishnaic Hebrew māmôn; see mn in Semitic roots.]

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mammon 
"personification of wealth," 1362, from L.L. mammona, from Gk. mammonas, from Aramaic mamona, mamon "riches, gain," left untranslated in Gk. N.T. (e.g. Matt. vi.24, Luke xvi.9-13) retained in the Vulgate, and regarded mistakenly by medieval Christians as the name of a demon.

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mammon

noun
1. wealth regarded as an evil influence 
2. (New Testament) a personification of wealth and avarice as an evil spirit; "ye cannot serve God and Mammon" 

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mammon

A New Testament expression for material wealth, which some people worship as a god. Figuratively, it simply means money.


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Mammon

Mam"mon\, n. [L. mammona, Gr. ? riches, Syr. mam?n[=a]; cf. Heb. matm?n a hiding place, subterranean storehouse, treasury, fr. t[=a]man to hide.] Riches; wealth; the god of riches; riches, personified.

Ye can not serve God and Mammon. --Matt. vi. 24.
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