noun · masculine
mamōnos
Strong’sG3126
riches, money, possessions
stem mamōn-4 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
*† μαμωνᾶς (Rec. μαμμ-), -ᾶ (Bl., § 7, 4), ό (Aram. מָמוֺנָא),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3126 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmam-mo-nas'
mammonas, i.e. avarice (deified)
Fromof Chaldee origin (confidence, i.e. wealth, personified);
King Jamesmammon.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
wealth, NT
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | mamōnos | mamōnois |
| object accusative | mamōnon | mamōnoin |
| direct address vocative | mamōnor | mamōnoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | mamōnou1×μαμωνᾶ | mamōnoiu |
| to, for dative | mamōno3×μαμωνᾷ | mamōnoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
mamōno is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
mamōnou“wealth”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Luke 16:9… legamō, heautoi poiavar filoin ek tou mamōnou tau adikiau, hina hotan eklipateia decheleia …I tell you, use worldly wealth to make friends for yourselves so …
mamōno“money”to, fordative singular3×
Matthew 6:24… katafronati. ouk dunovō theo douleuarō kai mamōno.… You cannot serve both God and money.
Luke 16:11ei oun en to adiko mamōno pistois ouk geneva, tem alēthinem tinos …… have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who will entrust you with true …
Luke 16:13… katafronati. ouk dunovō theo douleuarō kai mamōno.… You cannot serve both God and money.”