In Gbaya, the notion of white of eyes that are like “doves” in Song of Songs 4:1 is emphasized with kàlàkùlɛ̀ɛ̀, an ideophone used to describe something that is at white as milk.

The notion of a “flock of goats” coming down the hill is emphasized with fɔɗɛɛ, an ideophone that describes the spreading out of a number of objects on the ground, like termites, or here a number of goats on the hillside.

Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. Since the subject matter of Songs of Songs is particularly conducive to the use of ideophones, there are a total of 30 ideophones in the Gbaya Bible in that short biblical book alone. (Source: Philip Noss)

See also teeth are like a flock of ewes and eyes are like doves.