In Gbaya, the notion of being mounted up to heaven, i.e. tossed up high by the storm (as if the ship weighs nothing) is emphasized in Psalm 107:26 with kpaŋkuleŋ, an ideophone that describes something very light that the wind moves or tosses around.
Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)