their slain lie among their idols

In Gbaya, the notion of a lot of slain bodies is emphasized in Ezekiel 6:13 with kémbéŋ-kémbéŋ, an ideophone that designates people or objects piled up in uncountable quantities.

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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