הֵצֵר אֶת צְעָדָיו

ביטוי (אנגלית)

To slow (retard)someone's advance/ put obstacles in way of

הגדרה (אנגלית)

He limited his scope of action. He made his steps limited.

("The steps of his wickedness shall be broken, and his counsel shall be cast away" - Job 18:7, and so: "The emperors of your prisons were lawmakers, lawmakers of iniquity, to break the feet of Israel and to plunder them" - Agnon/ The City and Its Fullness, 461)