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mammon , Aramaic term, meaning worldly riches, retained in the New Testament Greek. "Ye cannot serve God and mammon" is one of the most noted biblical strictures.

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Mammon wealth regarded as an evil influence or false object of worship and devotion (sometimes as the mammon of unrighteousness, from Luke 16:19). It was taken by medieval writers as the name of the devil of covetousness, and revived in this sense by Milton.

See also you cannot serve God and Mammon.

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mammon Not a Hebrew word, but an Aramaic noun used in the Greek of Matt. 6: 24, translated ‘wealth’, NRSV, ‘money’, REB, NJB; familiar in modern English in a pejorative sense; ill-gotten gains, or self-centred covetousness, which takes possession of a person in place of the service of God.

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