חטא עון פשע (sin): The verb חטא is spoken with respect to the tendency from the way that is proper and it includes unintentional and intentional sins, anything that was not done due to atheism or heresy. And thus, it is necessary to say כי תחטא בשגגה (If any one shall sin through error)⁶⁴³, in order to indicate that the sin is unintentional.

footnotes: ⁶⁴³ Leviticus 4:2.

But if the three nouns come in their precise meaning, and all the more so when they are mentioned together, it indicates with the noun חטא that it is an unintentional sin, with the noun עון a distortion of the mind so that it is an intentional sin, and with the noun פשע that he has a rebellious and abhorrent soul.

And according to this, עון is the opposite of unintentional sin, פשע is the opposite of unwilling sin, and חטא is the opposite of uncertainty that one sins.