הִתְחַקָּה עַל שָׁורָשָׁיו (הִתְחַקּוּת עַל שָׁורָשָׁיו)

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Keeping watch over someone's movements/ following hard on someone's heel/ to examine carefully/ to trace

הגדרה (אנגלית)

Investigate its source. Or: Follow its lead (imitation means hearing, understanding, and good).

("And you will put me in the foundation of my feet and keep all my ways at the roots of my feet, you will follow me" - Job 13:27, and so: "Until the evil dogs are cut off,/ who follow the tracks of the wolves/ all the days, and like a crown of slaughter" - Shaul Tchernikhovsky/ The Slain of Tirmonia)