'Attempt' in the Bible

(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

When both the Gentiles and the Jews (together with their rulers) made an attempt to mistreat them and stone them,

Then the serpent spouted water like a river out of his mouth after the woman in an attempt to sweep her away by a flood,