הִתְהַלֵּךְ כַּצֵּל

ביטוי (אנגלית)

To walk like a shadow

הגדרה (אנגלית)

Walked limp. In question: He was weak and broken. He was depressed.

("Like the shadow of his footsteps I have gone, I have been shaken like a locust" - Psalms 11:23, and so: "Like the shadow he walks on the earth, I have not remained on him, I have spent his life on his corpse" - Sha'i Agnon/ In the blood of her days)