Mammon

Definitions: Mammon

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".

"Mammon" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "riches".

Date "mammon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Satire	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. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
Bible	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). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
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Original text from a 1911 encyclopedia

Mammon, a word of Aramaic origin, means "riches", but has an unclear etymology; scholars have suggested connections with a word meaning "entrusted", or with the Hebrew word "matmon", meaning "treasure".

The Greek word for "Mammon", mamonas, occurs in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew vi 24) and in the parable of the Unjust Steward (Luke xvi 9-13). The Authorised Version keeps the Syriac word. Wycliffe uses "richessis".

The New English Dictionary quotes Piers Plowman as containing the earliest personification of the name. Nicholaos de Lyra (commenting on the passage in Luke) says: "Mammon est nomen daemonis" (Mammon is the name of a demon). No trace, however, of any Syriac god of such a name exists, and the common identification of the name with a god of covetousness or avarice stems from Spenser (The Faerie Queene), Milton (Paradise Lost), and from the above-mentioned Piers Plowman.

In his Dictionnaire Infernal, De Plancy asserts that Mammon is Hell's ambassador to England, and Gregory of Nyssa asserted that Mammon was another name for Beelzebub.

Other scholars make derive Mammon from Phoenician 'mommon', benefit.

During the European Middle Age and in demonology Mammon was considered the demon of avarice, richness and injustice.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Money	Noun: money, legal tender; money matters, money market; finance; accounts; funds, treasure; capital, stock; assets;(property); wealth; supplies, ways and means, wherewithal, sinews of war, almighty dollar, needful, cash; mammon.
Wealth	Worship the golden calf, worship Mammon.
	Pelf, Mammon, lucre, filthy lucre; loaves and fishes.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Mammon

English words defined with "mammon": inextricably ♦ Mammonish, Mammonite. (references)

Specialty definitions using "mammon": Cave of Mammon ♦ Mammon of Unrighteousness, Mammon's Cave ♦ Philotime. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Mammon" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (Mammon), French (mammon), German (mammon), Hungarian (mammon), Swedish (mammon).

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Mammon and the Archer (1918)

The Toll of Mammon (1914)

Madame Mammon (2001)

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Domain	Title
Books	For God, Mammon, and Country: A Nineteenth-Century Persian Merchant, Haj Muhammad Hassan Amin al-Zarb (1834-1898) (reference) God, Mammon and the Japanese: Dr. Horace N. Allen and Korean-Amer Relations 1884-1905 (Multinational Corp Ser) (reference) Liberating the Future: God, Mammon, and Theology (reference) Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718-1819 (reference) Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire : The Political Economy of British Imperialism, 1860-1912 (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
F. Saunders	Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world.
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"Mammon" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Mammon" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	50%	3	202,518
Noun (singular)	50%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	6	N/A

Expression using "mammon": worship Mammon. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "mammon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pasuri (asset, fleshpot, fortune, independence, mean, moneybags, opulence, ownership, pelf, pregnancy, resource, riches, richness, wealth), para (ahead, before, beforehand, cash, chuck, contribution, currency, dough, Duff, forward, in face of, in front of, kale, loot, money, necessary, oil, oof, pelf, roll, shekels, shell, shiners, siller, splosh, stiff, the almighty). (various references)

Arabic		‏عابد المال, ‏عابد الذهب, ‏ثروة (fortune, opulence, pelf, purse, resource, resources, riches, substance, treasure, wealth), ‏شيطان الجشع. (various references)

Bulgarian		сребролюбие, мамон, алчност (avarice, avidity, cupidity, eagerness, miserliness, rapacity), богатство (abundance, affluence, fortune, means, moneybags, opulence, pelf, pregnancy, purse, riches, richness, shekels, substance), древносирийски бог на парите. (various references)

Czech		mamon (gold, golden calf, pelf), bohatství (amplitude, fortune, gold, great fortune, money bag, opulence, possessions, riches, richness, wealth). (various references)

Dutch		Mammon. (various references)

Esperanto		Mamono. (various references)

Farsi		ممونا(درکتب عهدجدید), ثروت (Fortune, Gold, Money, Possession, Treasure, Wealth, Worth), دولت (Government, Respublica, State). (various references)

Finnish		mammona. (various references)

French		mammon. (various references)

German		mammon. (various references)

Greek		μαμμωνάσ, πλούτοσ (nabobery, nabobism, opulence, opulency, pelf, riches, richness, wealth). (various references)

Hebrew		ממון (finance, money, pelf), בצע כסף (lucre, pelf). (various references)

Hungarian		mammon. (various references)

Italian		mammone (mama's boy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		マンハッタン計�"� (mambo, mambo jupon, mammonist, mammoth, mammoth tanker, man machine interface, Manhattan Project, manhole, manhunt, man-machine interface, man-power, MMI). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		マンモン . (various references)

Pig Latin		ammonmay

Portuguese		dar em nada (peter out, smash). (various references)

Romanian		mamon, avuţie (riches, wealth). (various references)

Russian		богатство (abundance, affluence, deep pocket, exuberance, exuberancy, fleshpot, fortune, luxuriance, money, moneybags, oof, opulence, pelf, pregnancy, riches, richness, wealth, wealthiness), деньги (chips, currency, dough, furniture of pocket, gelt, l.s.d., medium of circulation, money, monies, necessary, oof, pelf, pocket, scads, shekels, shiners, siller, spondulicks). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mamon. (various references)

Spanish		mamón (idiot, sucker, suckling), riqueza (abundance, affluence, ennoblement, love, money, moneybag, riches, richness, wealth). (various references)

Swedish		mammon, rikedom (abundance, affluence, luxuriance, opulence, riches, richness, variety, wealth, wealthiness). (various references)

Thai		การเปรียบเงินและทรัพย์สินเป็น false god ในพระคัม� ีร์ไบเบิ้ล, ทรัพย์สิน (coffers). (various references)

Turkish		servet tanrısı, kötü yola sevkeden servet, ihtiras (ambition, desire, glow, pash, passion), hırs (ambition, anger, avidity, cupidity, desire, fire, forwardness, glow, greed, greediness, mettle, passion, rage, rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity). (various references)

Ukranian		мамона, багатство (affluence, bag, capital, fortune, means, moneybag, oof, opulence, pocket, profusion, purse, riches, richness, the dollars, thrift, wad, weal, wealth). (various references)

Vietnamese		tiền t� i, sự phú quý. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Date	Source	Luke Chapter 16, Verse 11
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Ei oun en tw adikw mamwna pistoi ouk egenesqe to alhqinon tiV umin pisteusei
Latin	405	Vulgate	Si ergo in iniquo mamona fideles non fuistis quod verum est quis credet vobis
Old English	990	West Saxon	Gif ge on unrihtwisum woruldwelan næron getrywe hwa betæhð eow þæt eower ys;
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Therfor if ye weren not trewe in the wickid thing of ritchesse, who schal bitake to you that that is verry?
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	So then yf ye have not ben faithfull in ye wicked mamon? who will beleve you in that which is true?
Jacobean English	1611	King James	If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
Victorian English	1833	Webster	If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
Basic English	1964	Ogden	If, then, you have not been true in your use of the wealth of this life, who will give into your care the true wealth?
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Language	Luke Chapter 16, Verse 11
Bulgarian	И тъй, ако в неправедното богатство не бяхте верни, кой ще ви повери истинското богатство?
Cebuano	Kon kamo dili man kasaligan sa malimbongon nga bahandi, kinsa may mopiyal kaninyo sa matuod nga bahandi?
Chinese	倘若 � 們在不義的錢財上不 � 心、誰還把那真實的錢財託付 � 們呢。
Croatian	Ako dakle ne bijaste vjerni u nepoštenom bogatstvu, tko li æe vam istinsko povjeriti?
Danish	Dersom I da ikke have været tro i den uretfærdige Mammon, hvem vil da betro eder den sande?
Dutch	Zo gij dan in den onrechtvaardigen Mammon niet getrouw zijt geweest, wie zal u het ware vertrouwen?
Finnish	Jos siis ette ole olleet uskolliset väärässä mammonassa, kuka teille uskoo sitä, mikä oikeata on?
French	Si donc vous n`avez pas été fidèle dans les richesses injustes, qui vous confiera les véritables?
German	So ihr nun in dem ungerechten Mammon nicht treu seid, wer will euch das Wahrhaftige vertrauen?
Haitian Creole	Si ou pa sèvi byen ak richès ou gen sou latè, kilès ki va fè ou konfyans pou richès tout bon yo?
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Jadi, kalau mengenai kekayaan dunia ini kalian sudah tidak dapat dipercayai, siapa mau mempercayakan kepadamu kekayaan rohani?
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Sebab itu jikalau kamu tiada setia dengan Mammon yang lekat lalim itu, siapakah yang mempercayakan kamu di atas harta yang benar?
Italian	Se dunque non siete stati fedeli nella disonesta ricchezza, chi vi affider� quella vera?
Korean	너 희 가 만 일 불 의 한 재 물 에 충 성 치 아 니 하 면 누 가 참 된 것 으 로 너 희 에 게 맡 기 � 느 냐 ?
Latvian	Ja jau jûs netaisnas bagâtîbas lietâs neesat bijuði uzticami, kas lai jums uztic to, kas ir patiess,
Maori	Na ki te kahore i pono ta koutou mahi ki te taonga he, ma wai e tuku ki a koutou hei tiaki i te taonga pono?
Modern Greek	Εαν λοιπον εις τον αδικον μαμωνα δεν εφανητε πιστοι, τον αληθινον πλουτον τις θελει σας εμπιστευθη;
Norwegian	Dersom I da ikke har vært tro i den urettferdige mammon, hvem vil da betro eder de sanne skatter?
Portuguese	Se, pois, nas riquezas injustas não fostes fiéis, quem vos confiará as verdadeiras?
Rumanian	Deci, dacq n`ayi fost credinciowi kn bogqyiile (Grecewte: Mamona.) nedrepte, cine vq va kncredinya adevqratele bogqyii?
Russian	йФБЛ, ЕУМЙ ЧЩ Ч ОЕ� ТБЧЕ�"ОПН �'ПЗБФУФЧЕ ОЕ �'ЩМЙ ЧЕТОЩ, ЛФП � ПЧЕТЙФ ЧБН ЙУФЙООПЕ?
Shuar	Tuma asamtai ju nunkanmaya anankartin kuitjai pénker Túrachkurmeka, tuke átin ana nujai takastincha ¿itiur takastarumek?
Spanish	Así que, si con las riquezas injustas no fuisteis fieles, ¿quién os confiará lo verdadero?
Swahili	Kama basi, ninyi si hamjawa waaminifu mali mbaya za dunia, ni nani atakayewakabidhi zile mali za kweli?
Swedish	Haven I nu icke varit trogna, när det gällde den orättrådige Mamons goda, vem vill då betro eder det sannskyldiga goda?
Thai	เหตุฉะนั้น ถ้าท่านทั้งหลายไม่สัตย์ซื่อในทรัพย์สมบัติอธรรม ใครจะมอบทรัพย์สมบัติอันแท้ให้แก่ท่านเล่า
Ukrainian	Отож, коли в несправедливім багатстві ви не були вірні, хто вам правдиве довірить?
Uma	Jadi', ane uma lompe' pompewili' -ta hi ka'uaa' dunia' tohe'i, hema to mposarumaka-ta hi poko ka'uaa' to hi suruga?
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "mammon": mammonism, mammonisms, mammonist, mammonists, mammons. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Mammon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eammon, Maamen, Mahmod, maimon, Maimouna, maman, Mamand, Mamdou, mamman, Mammen, Mammern, mammo, mammons, mammot, mammut, Mamn, Mamoh, mamom, mamon, mamona, Mamor, Mamou, Mamouna, Manman, Mannon, Mannoni, manom, manon, Maumoon, Mazmoor, Mcalmon, memon, Mimmo, m'man, mommon, Mumon, Namron, Pammon, Umamung. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "mammon" (pronounced 'Mam"mon'): Cacodemon, demon, Discommon, Gnomon, Hieromnemon, ichneumon, Intercommon, Persimmon, Phlegmon, Plasmon, Resummon, summon, uncommon. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-m-m-m-n-o"
	-1 letter: momma.
	-2 letters: ammo, mano, moan, noma.
	-3 letters: man, moa, mom, mon, nam, nom.
	-4 letters: am, an, ma, mm, mo, na, no, om, on.
	Words containing the letters "a-m-m-m-n-o"
	+1 letter: mammons.
	+2 letters: ammonium.
	+3 letters: ammoniums, mammonism, mammonist.
	+4 letters: mammocking, mammonisms, mammonists, memorandum.
	+5 letters: commandment, communalism, memorandums, monogrammed, monogrammer.
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