mamon

Ye cannot serve God and mammon -- The word "mamon" -- better written with one m-- is a foreign one, whose precise derivation cannot certainly be determined, though the most probable one gives it the sense of "what one trusts in."

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

This interaction between valid testimony and testimony by witnesses who are normally disqualified and who may have a stake in the issue is a matter of balance: she is forbidden to her husband, who must divorce her (a matter of religious significance, issur), but is allowed to claim her ketubbah (a matter of money, mamon).

Legal-Religious Status of the Suspected Adulteress (Sotah). leBeit Yoreh 2009

That mamon Randall Stephenson will be sobbing in a corner.

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : Hugo Chavez: Chokehold will destroy capitalism 2009

When my European friends and acquaitances wonder how could Americans elect such an unquestionable dimwit as their president, and do it twice, to boot, I explain the "mamon as god" philosophy and stratification of the American society.

Page 3 2006

When my European friends and acquaitances wonder how could Americans elect such an unquestionable dimwit as their president, and do it twice, to boot, I explain the "mamon as god" philosophy and stratification of the American society.

Page 3 2006

We in Mexico call it being “mamon” somewhat of a sucker because you and only you, have the right to be selfish and selecto who you want to share with, eventought others might find you exclusive and might even get mad at you.

Too Many People — Climb to the Stars 2007

We brought our boat ashore a small island far downstream and Chino set up a picnic table loaded with fresh Spanish tortillas, beef milinesas, a salad and dulce de mamon, an inky, mildly sweet sort of preserves made from a local melon.

Fishing on the Parana 2007

We in Mexico call it being “mamon” somewhat of a sucker because you and only you, have the right to be selfish and selecto who you want to share with, eventought others might find you exclusive and might even get mad at you.

Too Many People — Climb to the Stars 2007

JB: “Unbelievers in my religion are a kind of spiritual gin in which the slaves of mamon drown their human shape and their claims to any decent life.”

A Schoolteacher Speaks Out - The Panda's Thumb 2006

The fruits peculiar to the torrid zone all grow in profusion and among them the native is fondest of the juicy mango, the guava, the aguacate or alligator pear, the anon or custard apple, the guanabana or soursop, the mamon or sweetsop, the mamey or marmalade fruit, the nispero or sapodilla and the tamarind.

Santo Domingo A Country with a Future Otto Schoenrich