Picking
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Picking (4 Occurrences)

Mark 2:23 It happened that he was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields, and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain.
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Luke 6:1 Now it happened on the second Sabbath after the first, that he was going through the grain fields. His disciples plucked the heads of grain, and ate, rubbing them in their hands.
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Luke 14:7 He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,
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1 Samuel 11:2 And Nahash the Ammonite saith unto them, 'For this I covenant with you, by picking out to you every right eye -- and I have put it a reproach on all Israel.'
(YLT)

Thesaurus
Picking (4 Occurrences)
... 8. (n.) Overburned bricks. 9. (a.) Done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking
sound. 10. ... Multi-Version Concordance Picking (4 Occurrences). ...
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Babbler (4 Occurrences)
... Version and the Revised Version (British and American) of Acts 17:18: The latter
Greek word is used of birds, such as the crow, that live by picking up small ...
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Picks (7 Occurrences)

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Fowl (73 Occurrences)
... for two pence"); their quickly picking up seeds from the ground is made to illustrate
the influences which render "the word" powerless (Matthew 13:4); their ...
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Pick (37 Occurrences)
... 12. (vi) To steal; to pilfer. 13. (n.) A sharp-pointed tool for picking; --
often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock. 14. ...
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Picker (1 Occurrence)
... a cotton picker. 2. (n.) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces
so as to loosen and separate the fiber. 3. (n.) The piece ...
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Pickers (2 Occurrences)

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Agriculture
... in diameter, prepared by first picking out the stones, and then wetting
the ground, tamping or rolling it, and finally sweeping it. ...
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Star (16 Occurrences)
... The difficulty of seeing the planet Venus in full sunshine does not lie in her want
of brightness, but in picking up and holding steadily so minute a point of ...
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Magi (4 Occurrences)
... The difficulty of seeing the planet Venus in full sunshine does not lie in her want
of brightness, but in picking up and holding steadily so minute a point of ...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pick.

2. (n.) The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.

3. (n.) The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering.

4. (n.) That which is, or may be, picked or gleaned.

5. (n.) Pilfering; also, that which is pilfered.

6. (n.) The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks.

7. (n.) Rough sorting of ore.

8. (n.) Overburned bricks.

9. (a.) Done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking sound.

10. (a.) Nice; careful.

Greek
5089. tillo -- to pluck, to pluck off
... pluck off. Word Origin a prim. word Definition to pluck, to pluck off NASB
Word Usage pick (1), picking (2). pluck. Perhaps akin ...
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1586. eklego -- to select
... from ek and lego (in the sense of pick up) Definition to select NASB Word Usage
choose (4), chose (7), chosen (8), made a choice (1), picking (1), select (1). ...
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Strong's Hebrew
3992. maar -- to prick, to pain
... fretting, picking. A primitive root; to be bitter or (causatively) to embitter,
ie Be painful -- fretting, picking. 3991, 3992. maar. 3993 . Strong's Numbers
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Library

A Life for a Life
... It isn't picking out a man here, and a man there and having them made fit to go
to Heaven; Christ came into this world, as He himself said, to found a society. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/drummond/a life for a life/a life for a life.htm

Rights
... CHAPTER 1 Rights. "Well," said mother, setting down a cup she had just wiped, and
picking up another, "the older I get, and the older my children get, the more ...
//christianbookshelf.org/williamson/have we no rights/chapter 1 rights.htm

The Birth of a Movement.
... It had discovered the secret of picking men from the streets and transforming them
into saints and scholars, and it was successful in its efforts. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/maclean/william black/i the birth of a.htm

Preface to the First Edition of the Gospel of the Pentateuch to ...
... was altogether negative; was possessed too often by that fanaticism of disbelief
which is just as dangerous as the fanaticism of belief; was picking the body ...
/.../kingsley/the gospel of the pentateuch/preface to the first edition.htm

A Prince's Bride
... A woman servant hastening after a line of men bearing a great divan, picking up
the draperies and pillows that had dropped, stopped and salaamed to her master. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/miller/the city of delight/chapter i a princes bride.htm

"Come Thou and all Thy House into the Ark. "
... I believe the story of the flood just as much as I do the third chapter of
John. I pity any man that is picking the old Book to pieces. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/moody/the overcoming life/come thou and all thy.htm

Ruth the Gleaner.
... before the clouds were red over Hebron, she went down into the valley where the
harvesters were at work, and followed the reapers and binders, picking up as a ...
/.../anonymous/children of the old testament/ruth the gleaner.htm

The Kingdom of God and Your Part in It
... What is the secret of Christianity? It is not picking out a man here and
a man there and making them fit to go to heaven. Christ ...
/.../stones rolled away and other addresses to young men/vi the kingdom of god.htm

The Hilltops --Experiences of Gladness and Glory
... There's a breeze from the hilltops that comes sweeping down through the trees, while
you are slowly picking your way along the rough, narrow valley road. ...
/.../quiet talks on following the christ/4 the hilltopsexperiences of gladness.htm

The Right to Live with the People of My Choice
... "Pick your own! Just as if we'd be allowed to pick our own senior workers! What
are you talking about?". "Just what I said. I'm picking my own senior worker! ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/williamson/have we no rights/chapter 9 the right to.htm

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