An adjective meaning 'Hebrew'—pertaining to the Hebrew language or Jewish culture. Luke 23:38 (in some manuscripts) describes Pilate's inscription on the cross being written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin—the three major languages of first-century Judea. Hebrew (or Aramaic, its related dialect) was the ethnic language of the Jewish people, Greek the international trade language, and Latin the imperial Roman tongue. The trilingual inscription proclaimed Jesus' kingship to all cultural groups present in Jerusalem.