may it be far from him

In Gbaya, the notion of the blessing avoiding him completely in Psalm 109:17 is emphasized with ŋgal-ŋgal, an ideophone that points to something exceptional.

Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)

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