“I have sinned;” | חָטָ֡אתִי | Properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn | sinned |
“what” | מָ֤ה | Properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses | what |
“shall I do” | אֶפְעַ֨ל׀ | To do or make (systematically and habitually), especially to practise | do |
“unto thee, O thou preserver” | נֹצֵ֪ר | To guard, in a good sense (to protect, maintain, obey, etc.) or a bad one (to conceal, etc.) | O preserver |
“of men?” | הָ֫אָדָ֥ם | Ruddy i.e., a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.) | men |
“why” | לָ֤מָה | Properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses | why |
“hast thou set” | שַׂמְתַּ֣נִי | To put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically) | set |
“me as a mark” | לְמִפְגָּ֣ע | An object of attack | mark |
“against thee, so that I am” | וָאֶהְיֶ֖ה | To exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary) | against am |
“a burden” | לְמַשָּֽׂא׃ | A burden; specifically, tribute, or (abstractly) porterage | burden |
“to” | עָלַ֣י | Above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications | to |
“myself?” | עָלַ֣י | Above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications | myself |