In Gbaya, the notion of numerous (“in the street the sword bereaves”) in Lamentations 1:20 is emphasized with ŋgoɗoso, an ideophone that designates things that are numerous, in clusters, in bundles.
Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)
See also lying on the ground in the streets