'Trying' in the Bible

And some men were carrying on a bed a man who was paralyzed; and they were trying to bring him in and to set him down in front of Him.

And all the people were trying to touch Him, for power was coming from Him and healing them all.

Herod said, “I myself had John beheaded; but who is this man about whom I hear such things?” And he kept trying to see Him.

Zaccheus was trying to see who Jesus was, and was unable because of the crowd, for he was small in stature.

And He was teaching daily in the temple; but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people were trying to destroy Him,