Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Mammon"
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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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" [syn: {Mammon}]
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