Mammon Definition

mămən
noun
Riches, avarice, and worldly gain personified as a false god in the New Testament.
American Heritage
Riches regarded as an object of worship and greedy pursuit; wealth or material gain as an evil, more or less deified.
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Origin of Mammon

  • Middle English from Late Latin mammon from Greek mamōnās from Aramaic māmonā riches probably from Mishnaic Hebrew māmôn ℵmn in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Mammon Sentence Examples

  • His Parable of the Wicked Mammon (1528), Obedience of a Christen Man (1528), in which the two great principles of the English Reformation are set out, viz.

  • The church obviously does not serve Christ; it serves mammon.

  • We shall not make mammon our God, accumulating power and wealth.

  • If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

  • To the last he maintained the narrow standpoint of Pusey and Keble, in defiance of all the developments of modern thought and modern scholarship; and his latter years were embittered by the consciousness that the younger generation of the disciples of his school were beginning to make friends of the Mammon of scientific unrighteousness.

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