'Tried' in the Bible

When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the presence of Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

The magicians tried with their secret arts to bring forth gnats, but they could not; so there were gnats on man and beast.

Or has a god tried to go to take for himself a nation from within another nation by trials, by signs and wonders and by war and by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm and by great terrors, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

David girded his sword over his armor and tried to walk, for he had not tested them. So David said to Saul, “I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them.” And David took them off.

Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, so that he stuck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.

“But He knows the way I take;When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

‘Job ought to be tried to the limit,Because he answers like wicked men.

The words of the Lord are pure words;As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times.

You have tried my heart;You have visited me by night;You have tested me and You find nothing;I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.

As for God, His way is blameless;The word of the Lord is tried;He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

For You have tried us, O God;You have refined us as silver is refined.

“When your fathers tested Me,They tried Me, though they had seen My work.

But John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I have need to be baptized by You, and do You come to me?”

John said to Him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.”

They tried to give Him wine mixed with myrrh; but He did not take it.

When day came, Jesus left and went to a secluded place; and the crowds were searching for Him, and came to Him and tried to keep Him from going away from them.

John answered and said, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name; and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow along with us.”

The scribes and the chief priests tried to lay hands on Him that very hour, and they feared the people; for they understood that He spoke this parable against them.

On the following day he appeared to them as they were fighting together, and he tried to reconcile them in peace, saying, ‘Men, you are brethren, why do you injure one another?’

And he even tried to desecrate the temple; and then we arrested him. [We wanted to judge him according to our own Law.

But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s tribunal, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also very well know.

And as I punished them often in all the synagogues, I tried to force them to blaspheme; and being furiously enraged at them, I kept pursuing them even to foreign cities.

For this reason some Jews seized me in the temple and tried to put me to death.

For you have heard of my former manner of life in Judaism, how I used to persecute the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it;

but only, they kept hearing, “He who once persecuted us is now preaching the faith which he once tried to destroy.”

Where your fathers tried Me by testing Me,And saw My works for forty years.