ἐπεχείρησαν (epecheiresan)

ἐπεχείρησαν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιχειρέω, meaning “attempt, undertake”. It is the 3rd person plural aorist active indicative.

Found 76 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Pericles 34.3: … ὰς ψυχὰς παντάπασιν ἠγριώθησαν πρὸς τὸν Περικλέα, καὶ καθάπερ ἰατρὸν ἢ πατέρα τῇ νόσῳ παραφρονήσαντες ἀδικεῖν ἐπεχείρησαν, ἀναπεισθέντες ὑπὸ τῶν ἐχθρῶν ὡς τὴν μὲν νόσον ἡ τοῦ χωριτικοῦ πλήθους εἰς τὸ ἄστυ συμφόρησις ἀπεργάζεται,

New Testament, Acts 19.13: Ἐπεχείρησαν δέ τινες καὶ τῶν περιερχομένων Ἰουδαίων ἐξορκιστῶν ὀνομάζειν ἐπὶ τοὺς ἔχοντας τὰ πνεύματα τὰ πονηρὰ τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ λέγοντες Ὁρκίζω ὑμᾶς τὸν Ἰησοῦν ὃν Παῦλος κηρύσσει.

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.