Lexical Summary
mamónas: Mammon, wealth, riches
Original Word: μαμωνᾶς
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: mamónas
Pronunciation: mah-mo-NAHS
Phonetic Spelling: (mam-mo-nas')
KJV: mammon
NASB: wealth
Word Origin: [of Chaldee origin (confidence, i.e. wealth, personified)]
1. mammonas, i.e. avarice (deified)
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
mammon.
Of Chaldee origin (confidence, i.e. Wealth, personified); mammonas, i.e. Avarice (deified) -- mammon.
HELPS Word-studies
3126 mammōnás – a Semitic term for "the treasure a person trusts in" (J. Thayer) who is transliterated as "mammon."
[3126 (mammōnás) is probably an Aramaic term, related to the Hebrew term ̓aman ("to trust," J. Thayer).]
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originof Aramaic origin
Definitionriches
NASB Translationwealth (4).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3126: μαμωνᾶςμαμωνᾶς (
G L T Tr WH), incorrectly
Μαμμωνᾶς (
Rec. (in Matt.)),
μαμωνᾷ (
Buttmann, 20 (18);
Winer's Grammar, § 8, 1),
ὁ,
mammon (Chaldean
מָאמונָא, to be derived, apparently, from
אָמַן; hence,
what is trusted in (cf. Buxtof, Lex. chald. talmud. et rabbin. col. 1217f (especially Fischer edition, p. 613f); according to Gesenius (Thesaurus i., 552) contracted from
מַטְמון,
treasure (
Genesis 43:23); cf.
B. D., under the word; Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, 2:269)),
riches:
Matthew 6:24 and
Luke 16:13 (where it is personified and opposed to God; cf.
Philippians 3:19);
Luke 16:9, 11. (
lucrum punice mammon dicitur, Augustine (de serm. Dom. in monte, 1. ii. c. xiv. (sec. 47)); the
Sept. translated the Hebrew
אֱמוּנָה in
Isaiah 33:6 θησαυροί, and in
Psalm 36:3
