MAMMON

Biblical noun (NT)

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An Aramaic word meaning riches (3 Nephi 13:24)

MAMMON, form the Aramaic mammon, "wealth, riches" (possibly from ma'mon, from ’amn, "to trust," and meaning, literally, "trust, deposit" (see E. Klein, CEDHL, p. 352; cf. also discussion of Biblical Hebrew root ’amn in Köhler-Baumgartner, s.v.

Aramaic was already in currency before the Babylonian exile, thus explaining the appearance of this Aramaic word in the Book of Mormon.