In Gbaya, the notion of the difference between what the kings imagined of the towers of Jerusalem and the reality of the tall towers of Jerusalem in Psalm 48:4 is emphasized with the ideophone ŋmɛk, which refers to something that is not tall when talking about is but tall when you encounter it.

Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)