In biblical contexts, the term "pick" can refer to various actions or tools associated with selection, gathering, or breaking apart. While the specific word "pick" may not frequently appear in the Berean Standard Bible, the concept is present in several passages and contexts.

1. Selection and Choice: The act of picking often involves making a choice or selection. This is seen in the biblical narrative where God chooses individuals for specific purposes. For example, God picked David to be king over Israel, as seen in 1 Samuel 16:12-13: "So he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with beautiful eyes and a handsome appearance. And the LORD said, 'Arise, anoint him, for this is he.' So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon David from that day forward."

2. Harvesting and Gathering: The concept of picking is also associated with harvesting, as seen in agricultural practices in biblical times. The Israelites were instructed on how to gather crops, including the practice of gleaning, which allowed the poor to pick leftover grains. Leviticus 19:9-10 states, "When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident. I am the LORD your God."

3. Breaking and Digging: The term "pick" can also refer to tools used for breaking or digging, such as a pickaxe. While specific references to pickaxes are not common, the use of tools for labor and construction is evident throughout the Bible. In Nehemiah 4:17, during the rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls, it is noted, "Those who were rebuilding the wall and those who carried burdens did their work with one hand and held a weapon with the other."

4. Symbolic and Metaphorical Uses: The concept of picking can also be metaphorically applied to spiritual selection or discernment. Believers are encouraged to choose wisely and discern between good and evil. In Philippians 1:9-10, Paul prays, "And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ."

5. Divine Election: Theologically, the idea of God picking or choosing is central to the doctrine of election. Ephesians 1:4-5 speaks to this divine selection: "For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will."

In summary, while the specific term "pick" may not be prevalent in the biblical text, the underlying concepts of selection, gathering, and discernment are integral to the biblical narrative and theology. These themes highlight God's sovereignty, human responsibility, and the call to live a life of discernment and purpose.1. (v.) To throw; to pitch.

2. (v.) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.

3. (v.) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.

4. (v.) To open (a lock) as by a wire.

5. (v.) To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc.

6. (v.) To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket.

7. (v.) To choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable; to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; -- often with out.

8. (v.) To take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; -- often with up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up information.

9. (v.) To trim.

10. (v. i.) To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.

11. (v. i.) To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.

12. (v. i.) To steal; to pilfer.

13. (n.) A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.

14. (n.) A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, road makers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.

15. (n.) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.

16. (n.) Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick.

17. (n.) That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock.

18. (n.) A particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot on a printed sheet.

19. (n.) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.

20. (n.) The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch.

353. analambano -- to take up, raise
... Speech: Verb Transliteration: analambano Phonetic Spelling: (an-al-am-ban'-o) Short
Definition: I take up, raise Definition: I take up, raise; I pick up, take ...
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1586. eklego -- to select
... to select. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: eklego Phonetic Spelling:
(ek-leg'-om-ahee) Short Definition: I choose, elect Definition: I pick out for myself ...
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4758. stratologeo -- to enlist soldiers
... Word Origin from the same as strateuo and lego (in the sense of pick up or choose)
Definition to enlist soldiers NASB Word Usage enlisted...as a soldier (1). ...
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4883. sunarmologeo -- to fit together
... of harmos and lego (in the sense of to pick up) Definition to fit together NASB
Word Usage fitted (1), fitted together (1), together* (1). joined together. ...
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4691. spermologos -- a seed picker, fig. one who picks up scraps ...
... bird. Word Origin from sperma and lego (to pick out, same verb as lego
but with a different mean.) Definition a seed picker, fig. ...
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142. airo -- to raise, take up, lift
... Definition to raise, take up, lift NASB Word Usage away (5), bear (4), carried
(1), carry (1), get (4), hoisted (1), keep (1), lifted (2), pick (9), picked (11 ...
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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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5166. trugao -- to gather in
... harvest. Word Origin from truge (ripe) Definition to gather in NASB Word
Usage gather (1), gathered (1), pick (1). gather. From ...
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2919. krino -- to judge, decide
... Iliad, v, 501). Thence, 'to distinguish, to pick out, to be of opinion,
to judge' " (, 418).]. Word Origin a prim. verb Definition ...
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5365. naqar -- to bore, pick, dig
... 5364, 5365. naqar. 5366 . to bore, pick, dig. Transliteration: naqar Phonetic
Spelling: (naw-kar') Short Definition: dug. ... dig, pick out, pierce, put thrust ...
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3950. laqat -- to pick or gather up, glean
... 3949, 3950. laqat. 3951 . to pick or gather up, glean. Transliteration: laqat
Phonetic Spelling: (law-kat') Short Definition: gather. Word Origin a prim. ...
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2846. chathah -- to snatch up
... heap, take away. A primitive root; to lay hold of; especially to pick up fire --
heap, take (away). 2845, 2846. chathah. 2847 . Strong's Numbers.
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622. asaph -- to gather, remove
... 2), collects (1), cure (4), destroy (1), disappear (1), drew (1), garner (1), gather
(33), gathered (81), gathering (1), gathers (3), lose (3), pick (1), put (1 ...
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4281. machareshah -- a plowshare
... 1). mattock. From charash; probably a pick-axe -- mattock. see HEBREW charash.
4280, 4281. machareshah. 4282 . Strong's Numbers.
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717. arah -- to gather, pluck
... Word Origin a prim. root Definition to gather, pluck NASB Word Usage gathered (1),
pick (1). gather, pluck. A primitive root; to pluck -- gather, pluck. ...
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5375. nasa -- to lift, carry, take
... 1), looked* (2), make (1), married (1), must be carried (1), obtained (1), offer
(3), pardon (2), pardons (1), partial* (2), partiality* (8), pick (1), picked ...
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The Devotion of Ruth
... Ruth, the Moabitess, said to Naomi, "Let me now go into the fields and pick up the
scattered heads of grain after him whose favor I should win." Naomi said to ...
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The Right to Live with the People of My Choice
... Everybody wants a congenial fellow worker. Well, there's only one way to be sure,
and that is"pick your own! That's what I'm going to do!". ... "Pick your own! ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/williamson/have we no rights/chapter 9 the right to.htm

Are You Mocked?
... I will stand here and say that if I could stand to-morrow morning in Cheapside,
and pick out a dozen poor men, and then if I were to pick out a dozen middle ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 62 1916/are you mocked.htm

A Downward Step.
... over, Bessie was contemplating a ramble where she had noticed some large red apples
hanging; but just then her aunt said, "Bessie, you must not pick any of the ...
/.../byrum/the value of a praying mother/chapter vii a downward step.htm

Very Hard, yet Very Easy.
... I think a good deal of that Bible, and I don't like to see this. His mother said
to him, "Go pick up uncle's Bible from the floor." "I won't," he replied. ...
/.../moody/moodys anecdotes and illustrations/very hard yet very easy.htm

Receiving and Rejecting.
... now, bringing back the straying sheep, and replacing them in the fold, but one day
He will do just the contrary, He will go to His fold, and pick out the ...
/.../the village pulpit volume ii trinity to advent/xl receiving and rejecting.htm

Feeding on Ashes
... You pick up the skeleton of a bird upon a moor; and if you know anything about
osteology"the science of bones"you will see, in the very make of its breast ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/feeding on ashes.htm

How the victor Runs
... It is very remarkable that Paul should pick out these Grecian games as containing
for Christian people any lesson, for they were honeycombed, through and ...
/.../maclaren/romans corinthians to ii corinthians chap v/how the victor runs.htm

Conclusion
... 1924), 411. See also B. Pick, The Apocryphal Acts (Chicago, Open Court Pub.
Co., 1909), 312. [56]According to Pick op. cit. (see note ...
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Sweet Comfort for Feeble Saints
... I have heard of a man who would pick up a pin as he walked along the street, on
the principle of economy; but I never yet heard of a man who would stop to pick ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 1 1855/sweet comfort for feeble saints.htm

Pick (37 Occurrences)
... 3. (v.) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted
wool, cotton, oakum, etc. 4. (v.) To open (a lock) as by a wire. ...
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Quarries (4 Occurrences)
... Zerubbabel, and Herod. Huge blocks of stone are still found in these caves
bearing the Marks of pick and chisel. The general appearance ...
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Picked (43 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (imp. & pp) of Pick. 2. (a.) Pointed; sharp. 3. (a.)
Having a pike or spine on the back; -- said of certain fishes. ...
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Shiloah (1 Occurrence)
... Now this (is) the history of the tunnel: while the excavators were still lifting
up (2) The pick toward each other, and while there were yet three cubits (to ...
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Siloah (1 Occurrence)
... Now this (is) the history of the tunnel: while the excavators were still lifting
up (2) The pick toward each other, and while there were yet three cubits (to ...
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Gather (251 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect,
as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck. ...
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Mattock (2 Occurrences)
... mat'-ok: The translation of 3 Hebrew words: (1) machereshah, probably "a pick-axe"
(1 Samuel 13:20, 21; compare 1 Samuel 13:21 margin); (2) cherebh, "sword ...
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Peck (3 Occurrences)
... 4. (v.) Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument;
especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements. ...
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Picker (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (n.) One who, or that which, picks, in any sense, -- as, one who uses a pick;
one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax; as, a cotton picker. ...
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Shelah (18 Occurrences)
... Now this (is) the history of the tunnel: while the excavators were still lifting
up (2) The pick toward each other, and while there were yet three cubits (to ...
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