In Gbaya, the notion of being broken up into small pieces is emphasized with the ideophone ndúkú-ndúkú.
In Habakkuk 3:16 «rottenness enters into my bones» is translated as «my bones have decomposed and broken up,» emphasized by ndúkú-ndúkú.
Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)