Mammonn.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin mammona wealth (Vulgate; also mammonas (Tertullian), mammon (pseudo-Jerome)) < Hellenistic Greek μαμωνᾶς (New Testament) < Aramaic māmōnā, emphatic form of māmōn wealth or profit (μαμωνᾶς τῆς ἀδικίας (see Luke 16:9) is after Aramaic māmōn di-rĕšaʿ ‘riches or gain of wickedness’ (Targum to Habakkuk 2:9): compare the more common Aramaic māmōn di-šĕqar ‘riches of falsehood’). Perhaps of common Canaanite origin (compare post-biblical Hebrew māmōn, Punic mammon profit (according to St Augustine)). The further etymology is uncertain: suggestions include a derivation from the root 'mn meaning ‘that in which one trusts’. Derivatives are widespread in languages influenced by New Testament usage.The fact that Mammon is personified in Matthew 6:24 and Luke 16:13, but apparently not in Luke 16:9, 16:11 led to an uncertainty as to whether the word should be glossed by ‘riches’ or an equivalent, as it is in the Old English (West Saxon), Wycliffite, and Geneva translations, or whether it should be left untranslated; in the Lindisfarne Gospels the word is glossed by ‘deofle’ (and by ‘diwlgittsungo’ at Luke 16:11) with a marginal comment on its meaning: see quot. OE at sense a. Luther introduced the untranslated word into the tradition of German biblical translation, and was followed by Tyndale and by most subsequent English translators until the 20th cent., and by translators into other languages, with the result that derivatives of the word are most common in German, English, and the languages of Protestant northern Europe. The 1611English version supplies a glossarial note ‘Or, riches’ beside ‘Mammon’ at Luke 16:9, 16:11.