Mammon

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mammon \Mam"mon\ (m[a^]m"m[u^]n), n. [L. mammona, Gr. mammwna^s
     riches, Syr. mam[=o]n[=a]; cf. Heb. matm[=o]n a hiding place,
     subterranean storehouse, treasury, fr. t[=a]man to hide.]
     Riches; wealth; the god of riches; riches, personified.
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           Ye can not serve God and Mammon.         --Matt. vi.
                                                    24.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mammon
       n 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"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  63 Moby Thesaurus words for "mammon":
     affluence, and pence, assets, bottomless purse, bulging purse,
     cash, circulating medium, coinage, coined liberty, cold cash,
     currency, dollars, easy circumstances, embarras de richesses,
     emergency money, filthy lucre, fortune, fractional currency, gold,
     handsome fortune, hard cash, hard currency, high income,
     high tax bracket, independence, legal tender, lucre, luxuriousness,
     managed currency, material wealth, medium of exchange, mintage,
     money, money to burn, moneybags, necessity money, opulence,
     opulency, pelf, possessions, postage currency, postal currency,
     pounds, property, prosperity, prosperousness, riches, richness,
     scrip, shillings, silver, six-figure income, soft currency, specie,
     sterling, substance, the almighty dollar, the wherewith,
     the wherewithal, treasure, upper bracket, wealth, wealthiness
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Mammon
     a Chaldee or Syriac word meaning "wealth" or "riches" (Luke
     16:9-11); also, by personification, the god of riches (Matt.
     6:24; Luke 16:9-11).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Mammon, riches
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  MAMMON, n.  The god of the world's leading religion.  The chief temple
  is in the holy city of New York.
  
      He swore that all other religions were gammon,
      And wore out his knees in the worship of Mammon.
                                                              Jared Oopf