mammon

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"
    

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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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
    

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).
    

Mammon, riches
    

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