In Gbaya, the notion of the strength of the arm in Song of Songs 5:14 is emphasized with réɓété, an ideophone used to describe something strong or robust like the arm of a strong man with with kini-kini, an ideophone used to describe something rounded (as in rounded muscles).

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)