sparkled like burnished bronze

In Gbaya, the notion of sparkling and shininess in Ezekiel 1:7 is emphasized with ŋgol-ŋgol, an ideophone that designates something shiny.

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 complete verse (Psalm 68:13).

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