they have turned and fled together

In Gbaya, the notion of fleeing together in Jeremiah 46:21 is emphasized with soŋkpooŋ, an ideophone that expresses the fact of leaving together never to return (the “no return” is meant hyperbolically in this case).

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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