Peirao describes an attempted killing in the temple incident of Acts 26:21.

The attested use describes an attempted act of killing: in Acts 26:21, the imperfect middle form occurs in the report that Jews seized the speaker in the temple and attempted to kill him.

1. attempting to kill · dominant

   In Acts 26:21, ἐπειρῶντο is a third-person plural imperfect middle indicative form in the report of Jews seizing the speaker in the temple; the APB renders the clause “tried to kill me.”

   Acts 26:21

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Acts 26:21, the APB presents the action as “tried to kill me”; This identifies the verse-level action rather than a precise lexical equivalent.