Cave of Adullam

English Etymology From en hbo מְעָרַת־עֲדֻלָּם cave of Adullam məʿāraṯ-ʿĂḏullām, referring to a redoubt near the town of Adullam where David fled from his enemy King Saul of Israel. Noun Caves of Adullam Cave of Adullam en figuratively A place or group in which people who have met failure or defeat in some way are said to congregate. en 1890 w:George William Knox The Lull in Japan w:The Church at Home and Abroad 8 219 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iNBLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA219 but what shall we say of the sects which, coming late with forces weak in number and intellect, feed upon the refuse of the Church? They form caves of Adullam and call them churches. en 1896 w:Leslie Stephen The Evolution of Editors National Review (London) The National Review 26 156 773 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QSI_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA773 Grub Street was a Cave of Adullam for broken men, ruined in trade or political troubles, who could just keep body and soul together by these productions. 1 226 The order was largely copied by private firms, with the result, as Szálasi complained, of “completely excluding the middle classes from the Hungarist Movement”—which in fact was by it both reduced in volume and changed in character, becoming more than ever a Cave of Adullam for more or less desperate elements. en 2005 Thomas Pinney A History of Wine in America 2 0520241762 205 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DagwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA205 The marathon open hearing held in Fresno in May 1961 to debate the measure turned out to be a Cave of Adullam where everyone with a complaint or a grievance, exacerbated through the long years of market instability, craved to be heard. Derived terms en Adullamite en terms derived from the Bible